Journal article
Impairment of muscle performance before and following total hip replacement
JM McMeeken, MP Galea
International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation | MARK ALLEN GROUP | Published : 2007
Abstract
The 17 participants in this within-subject study were acute tertiary hospital patients scheduled for total hip replacement. The main outcome measures were pain (visual analogue scale), function (timed up and go test and stair climbing), and muscle performance (isokinetic testing of quadriceps and hamstrings). These measures were collected by a physiotherapist blinded to the purpose of the study, at three time periods, twice before surgery to establish stability of measurement and at 8–12 weeks post surgery.The aim of this preliminary descriptive study was to investigate the presurgical condition and medium term postsurgical outcomes of pain, function and muscle performance in patients with t..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge funding from the Centre for Molecular Biology and Medicine at the Epworth Medical Centre, Richmond, Australia which provided funding for the collection of data and the School of Physiotherapy, the University of Melbourne for the authors' support. We are grateful to the administrative staff of the orthopaedic surgeons for their assistance with recruitment to this study, to the subjects who participated and to Ms Debbie Virtue and Ms Inge Lise Bygott the physiotherapists who provided research assistance.