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Physical therapy—specifically, a program aimed at improving walking skills—helps patients regain walking distance and stair-climbing ability following total hip arthroplasty, also known as total joint replacement surgery. Researchers in Norway found that the physical therapy-led program’s benefits on physical function continued at least a year following hip replacement surgery. While hip replacement patients [...] Researchers report in the March 31, 2011 New England Journal of Medicine that, for obese adults, a combination of weight loss and exercise results in more improved physical function than weight loss or exercise alone. [...] New research projects look at physical therapy for osteoarthritis, back pain and total joint replacement. [...] Forty-three percent of patients scheduled to undergo orthopedic surgery have insufficient levels of vitamin D and two out of five of those patients had levels low enough to place them at risk for metabolic bone disease, according to a study published in the October 6, 2010 Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. According to the [...] |
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