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Role of Preoperative Rehabilitation in Hip Surgeries: A Narrative Review
Article | IMSEAR | ID: sea-202771
ABSTRACT
Hip trauma is a significant cause of morbidity and mortalityamong elderly patients. In the United States approximately30lakhs hip fractures occur each year and this number isincreasing each year along with the increased number ofelderly population. The management of hip trauma usuallydepends on the surgical management. However evidencesuggests that even with prompt surgical interventions, thepost operative complications are common and patient face agreat difficulty in post operative rehabilitation. Recently, someof the randomized trials have suggested that preoperativerehabilitation in the form of exercise or the physiotherapyis associated with improved postoperative pain score anddecreased hospital stay in elderly frail patients and in patientswith associated co morbidities such as diabetes, cardiovascular,or respiratory complications. In this present review wewill outline the importance of preoperative rehabilitationin management of different types of hip trauma based onprevious study summaries. We will also try to evaluate theimportance of such rehabilitation therapy in final outcome ofthe patients after surgery

Full text: Available Index: IMSEAR (South-East Asia) Type of study: Controlled clinical trial Year: 2020 Type: Article

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Full text: Available Index: IMSEAR (South-East Asia) Type of study: Controlled clinical trial Year: 2020 Type: Article