ORTHOPEDICS THIS WEEK VOLUME 14 , ISSUE 23 | JULY 17 , 2018 21
LARGE JOINTS
Fitness Trackers Rehab Total Joint Patients
slap on the wrist may not get postop patients moving , but a fitness
A tracker on the wrist just might .
Australian researchers have found that for patients undergoing knee or hip arthroplasty a fitness tracker may improve post-op activity levels . The study , “ Feedback from Activity Trackers Improve Daily Step Count after Knee and Hip Arthroplasty : A Randomized Controlled Trial ,” appears in the June 27 , 2018 edition of The Journal of Arthroplasty .
A total of 163 total hip arthroplasty ( THA ) and total knee arthroplasty ( TKA ) patients were randomized to two groups . The authors wrote , “ Subjects received an activity tracker with the step display obscured 2 weeks prior to surgery and completed patient reported outcome measures ( PROMIS ).”
“ On day 1 after surgery participants were randomized to either the “ Feedback Group ” ( FB ) or the “ Non Feedback Group ( NFB ).”
Wikimedia Commons and Paige Walters
“ The FB group were able to view their daily step count and were given a daily step goal . Participants in the NFB group wore the device with the display obscured for 2 weeks after surgery , after which time they were also able to see their daily step count , but did not receive a formal step goal .”
Co-author Lucy Salmon , Ph . D ., with the North Sydney Orthopaedic and Sports
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