Functional Outcome Of THA Patients With Physiotherapy & Patient Reported Outcome Measures Scores: A Randomized Comparative Study

Abstract

Introduction -Total hip Arthroplasty has gained much acceptance in society and is now easily opted by people suffering from painful hip ailments. This may be because of better facilities, skilled surgeons and reduced cost and mainly due to increased awareness and accessibility. Treatment is one important part of curing but the actual quality of life improvement depends on how efficiently the individual can lead life thus rehabilitation is an important aspect after any surgery so is after THA. Physiotherapy plays an important role in post-surgical rehabilitation, but the duration of physiotherapy needed varies with patients, surgery, and pre-operative patient status. This study aims to assess the effect of short-term and prolonged physiotherapy on the patient undergoing THA.
Methodology: The present study was carried out in a tertiary care hospital in Belgaum district and randomly included 108 patients who underwent THA with varying deformities and limb length discrepancy (LLD) in two groups of 54 each. Group A patients were given physiotherapy for 3 months, and group B patients were given physiotherapy for 6 months. HHS(Harris hip scores) and clinical outcomes were assessed.
Results: Demographic data was studied using percentage and averages and z statistics and paired t-test statistics were applied to study the difference in HHS score between and within the two groups.
Conclusion: The study concluded that Physiotherapy was efficient in improving HHS scores with p< 0.05 in both groups and both groups showed the same improvement in HHS (p>0.05).