Influence of Early Physiotherapy Intervention on Pain, Joint Range of Motion and Quality of Life in Unilateral Hip Joint Replacement surgery Sahu Anupriya1, Kumar K Senthil2,*, Krishna S Raghava3, Madhavi K4 1PG-Masters in Physiotherapy (orthopaedics), College of Physiotherapy, SVIMS, Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh 2Asst. Professor, College of Physiotherapy, SVIMS, Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh 3Lecturer, College of Physiotherapy, SVIMS, Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh 4Professor, College of Physiotherapy, SVIMS, Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh *Corresponding author: K Senthil Kumar, MPT (ORTHO), MIAP, Asst. Professor, College of Physiotherapy, SVIMS, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh
Online published on 16 January, 2018. Abstract Background Joint replacement surgery is procedure that has increasingly been performed intending to improve quality of life for the population living with orthopaedics condition. In the joints of the lower limb, the knee joint is mostly replaced and next is the hip joint. Recently the hip joint replacement is commonly replacing with internal prosthesis in elderly individuals, to prevent the complication. Now a day's THR Is the most common surgery in the general population. According to previous rehabilitation program of THR, ambulation starts 6th or 7th day of surgery, which could not able to prevent the post-operative complications such as pulmonary embolism, urinary retention, blood clotting, DVT after THR. For reducing the post operative complications and to improve the functional activity and QOL, we will ambulate the patients on 3rd post-operative day Methodology 32 subjects with the unilateral THR were taking for the study and divided into two groups. Group 1 were ambulating within the 3rd day of the surgery and Group 2 were ambulating on 7th day of surgery. Pain was measured with VAS, ROM is measured from goniometer and QOL is measured with the WOMAC score. >Results Results of the early ambulation on 3rd day is showing the significant improvement (p<0.05) of postoperative pain and QOL of the unilateral THR subjects. Conclusion On the basis of above study we concluded that early ambulation within 3rd day of surgery will make difference in QOL and functional stability following unilateral THR subjects. Top Keywords Total hip replacement, avascular necrosis, Quality of life. Top |