Inpatient Versus Outpatient Rehabilitation After TKA

Inpatient Versus Outpatient Rehabilitation Following Total Knee Arthroplasty

The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation following total knee arthroplasty. No studies exist that have evaluated these two rehabilitation programmes in a specific orthopaedic patient population with a focus on motor performance. We hypothesized that patients participating in outpatient care tend to be physically more active than patients in the rehabilitation clinic, leading to the assumption that outpatient rehabilitation has superior functional outcomes compared to the inpatient standard-of-care therapy.

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients with knee osteoarthritis and scheduled for primary TKA
• age: 50-80

Exclusion Criteria:

• BMI > 40
• musculoskeletal and neurological disorders that limit physical function
• any planned further joint surgery within 6 months
• substantial pain or functional limitation which make the patients unable to perform study procedures