PHYSICAL THERAPY & REHAB
Supervised telerehabilitation noninferior to home-visit rehabilitation after TKA
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J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2015 Jul 15;97(14):1129-41
206 patients scheduled for total knee arthroplasty were randomized to postoperative supervised telerehabilitation or standard, home-visit rehabilitation. The purpose of this study was to determine if telerehabilitation was noninferior to standard in-home, face-to-face rehabilitation. Participants were assessed through clinical outcome scores and functional measures preoperatively, at discharge, and a 2 and 4 months after discharge. Results demonstrated no significant differences between groups for any of the studied outcome measures, indicating the noninferiority of telerehabilitation.
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