Preoperative Pain, Function, and Activity for Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Patients

Hvidovre University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Arthroplasty

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01248039

H-4-2010-FSP2

PRE-THA-TKA (Registry Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study wish to show if the preoperative level of pain, function or activity for hip and knee arthroplasty patients has any predictive value of the time it takes to fulfill the well-defined discharge criteria.

Full description

The investigators would like to be able to identify those patients, for whom it will take longest time to fulfill the discharge criteria. With this knowledge the investigators will be able to initiate sufficient treatment already before operation.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Total hip arthroplasty patients
• Total knee arthroplasty patients

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to speak and understand Danish
• Inability to perform the functional measurements due to other conditions

Trial design

100 participants in 1 patient group

Total arthroplasty

Description:

Patients with osteoarthrosis going for hip or knee arthroplasty