Returning To Sport After Joint Replacement

Main Category: Sports Medicine / Fitness
Also Included In: Bones / Orthopaedics
Article Date: 10 Jul 2008 - 2:00 PDT

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Research published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-British Volume (JBJS-Br), demonstrates that a majority of those who were actively participating in sport before a joint replacement or resurfacing were able to return to sport after their operation. A total of 61.4% of patients surveyed had returned to sport within one to three years after their operation.

Going even further, the analysis shows that once the factors of age and gender were removed 'there was no significant difference in the rate of return to sport according to the type of operation'. These findings suggest that hip resurfacing may have no advantage over conventional THR in terms of return to activity post operatively.

Despite these positive findings in patients who were active before surgery, the article stresses the need for surgeons to 'discuss the probability of return to sport with patients before operation in order to obviate unrealistic expectations'. This is particularly true in light of the finding that a quarter of patients who were active pre-operatively were unable to return to sport due to pain.

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- The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume is a world leading orthopaedics journal with an Impact Factor of 1.868

- JBJS-Br publishes twelve issues a year of high-quality, peer-reviewed research, overseen by an international editorial board led by Editor James Scott

- The Journal was first published in 1948 by The British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery, a registered charity (No. 209299), with the object of the advancement and improvement of education in orthopaedic surgery and allied branches of surgery and the diffusion of knowledge of new and improved methods of teaching and practicing orthopaedic surgery in all its branches

- You can find out more about the Journal at http://www.jbjs.org.uk

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume