The percentage of patients with a sedentary lifestyle decreased from 61% to 45% at 5 years after total hip arthroplasty. Total hip arthroplasty was associated with increased physical activity in patients and that activity persisted at 5 years and 10 years postoperatively, according to Swiss researchers. “Primary total hip arthroplasty substantially and durably improves physical activity in men and women and in all age categories,” Anne Lübbeke, MD, DSc, the study’s lead investigator, said at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting, here. “In patients less than 55 years, postoperative activity levels remained lower than just before [osteoarthritis] OA symptom onset,” said Lübbeke, who is at Geneva University Hospitals, in Geneva. She and her colleagues performed cross-sectional analyses to determine the course of osteoarthritis (OA) in four time periods, which were prior to the disease, preop- erative to total hip arthroplasty (THA), at 5 years postoperatively and 10 years postoperatively. […]
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