A combined one-on-one/group-circuit physiotherapyformat affords cost-benefits over one-on-onephysiotherapy without compromising clinical outcomesduring post-acute lower-limb orthopaedic in-patientrehabilitation: a prospective randomised controlled trial

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Musculoskeletal - Osteoarthritis; Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Physiotherapy; Post acute lower limb orthopaedic inpatient in rehabiliation; Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Other physical medicine / rehabilitation

• Registration Number: ACTRN12611000152921
• Lead Sponsor: John Flynn Private Hosptial

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2011-02-09
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 89

Inclusion Criteria

(i) age of 50 years or over; and, (ii) admission for post-acute phase lower-limb orthopaedic in-patient rehabilitation, specifically following knee or hip arthroplasty, pelvic fracture and/or lower-limb open-reduction-internal-fixation (ORIF) surgery. In cases involving athroplasty, patients were included whether the surgical prothesis was a total- or hemi-arthroplasty and, whether the surgery was a primary or revision procedure.

Exclusion Criteria

(i)under postoperative non-weight-bearing orders and/or if they had received surgery to both lower-limbs (ii) age of less than 50 years; (iii) non-orthopaedic reason for admission; (iv) orthopaedic day patients; (v) concomitant neurological, autoimmune or unstable cardiovascular condition; and, (vi) those with cognitive impairment as
specified by a MMSE score of less than 24/30.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified