Home-based management of knee osteoarthritis during COVID-19 pandemic: literature review and evidence-based recommendations.
Theofilos KarasavvidisMichael T HirschmannNanne P KortIoannis TerzidisTrifon TotlisPublished in: Journal of experimental orthopaedics (2020)
When bridging the time to rescheduled surgery, it is essential to use appropriate home-based tools for the management of knee OA if pain is to be reduced and need for analgesics or opioid use is to be diminished while maintaining or even improving the functioning and avoiding further limitation of range of motion and subsequent muscular atrophies. Finally, none of these treatments may completely substitute for the life-changing effect of a total knee arthroplasty in patients with severe knee OA. Hence, the subsequent goal is to gradually and safely reinstate elective surgery.
Keyphrases
- knee osteoarthritis
- total knee arthroplasty
- minimally invasive
- coronary artery bypass
- total hip
- chronic pain
- surgical site infection
- patients undergoing
- case report
- pain management
- neuropathic pain
- coronary artery disease
- clinical practice
- resistance training
- atrial fibrillation
- postoperative pain
- spinal cord injury
- high resolution
- drug induced