A protocol for delivery of prehabilitation in lower limb arthroplasty in South Africa.
Prithi Pillay-Jayaraman, Verusia Chetty, Stacy Maddocks
PMID 40357309WHAT IT FOUND
No hip or knee replacement outcomes are reported.
This paper describes a planned prehabilitation protocol in South Africa, so it cannot change current practice yet.
What this paper is
This is a study protocol for delivering prehabilitation before hip or knee replacement in South Africa. It describes planned phases, assessments and analysis, but reports no outcome results, so there is no finding to act on.
Declared interests
The authors disclosed financial support for the research, authorship and publication, and said the work was supported by the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this protocol as evidence that prehabilitation improves hip or knee replacement outcomes. The paper reports no results.