Pre-operative education and prehabilitation provision for patients undergoing hip and knee replacement: a national survey of current NHS practice
Prehabilitation services are not provided for all patients waiting for arthroplasty. Future work is needed to design and evaluate prehabilitation resources to optimise pre-operative health and improve patient outcomes after TKR and THR.
Authors
- Ifrah Omar
- Wendy Bertram (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8234-2052)
- Michael Richard Whitehouse (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2436-9024)
- Vikki Wylde (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8460-1529)
- Jodie Fogg
Institutions
- University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (GB)
- University of Bristol (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Published
- 2025-04-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-025-08637-5
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.01
Funders
- Wellcome Trust
- NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre