The systemic rehabilitation for early postoperative elderly individuals following total knee replacement in Peri-operation period

Objective To discuss the effects of early postoperative individuals rehabilitation following total knee replacement(TKR).Method Sixty patients were randomly divided into rehabilitation group and control group,30 subjects each.All patients suffered from knee osteoarthritis were underwent the operation in hospital.All patients got the normal nursing care.In addition,the rehabilitation group got the individual rehabilitation systematically.Patients were evaluated at the 2nd day before operation,the 2nd,the 7th and the 14th day after operation.The evaluation indexes involved the hospital special surgery knee score(HSS),knee range of motion(ROM),and visual analogue scale(VAS).Result All the evaluation indexes had no differences between rehabilitation group and control group before operation and the 2nd day after operation(P0.05).At the 7th and 14th day after operation,HSS and VAS in rehabilitation group was better than those in control group(P0.05,P0.01).The knee ROM in rehabilitation group was much better than that in control group(P0.01).Conclusion Individual rehabilitation program could facilitate function restoration and significantly improve range of motion for the patients after TKR.