Physical Therapy For Neck Of Femur Fracture And Its Functional Outcome Candidate
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Science And clinical Research - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 4
Abstract
Background; Acute care rehabilitation and intensive physical therapy after hemiarthroplasty in neck of femur fracture was need to be studied in Asian population Objective; to compare the effectiveness of intensive physical therapy and regular physical therapy in acute post operative rehabilitation of NOF# treated with hemiarthroplasty. Methodology; Fresh cases of neck of femur fracture admitted between March 2009to march2012 were included in this study.50 patients were recruited from the wards of RMMC&H based on the selection criteria. Patients were randomly divided in to experimental and control groups. Intensive physical therapy group [experimental] treated twice a day in each 30 minutes of physical therapy. Control group treated with regular physical therapy 30minutes per day. Harris hip score, KATZ ADL, gait speed and TUG Test are used as outcome measures patients in both groups were assessed 3rd post operative day, at discharge and at four months. On analysis p-value for HHS was 0.238, tug- test was 0.824 and gait speed was 0.672.In conclusion physical therapy for both experimental and control groups were significantly effective in all scores but comparatively there is no significant difference on both groups
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Dr V. K. Mohandoss kurup.
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