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Proof: Knee Arthroscopy Surgery Gets You Back On Your Feet Fast
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http://www.ryortho.com/NEWSSHORTS/volume4/issue2/01-14-08-NS-Proof.htm
By Walter Eisner January 14, 2008
The first study to quantify recovery time for patients having knee
arthroscopy surgery has been released.
The results: More than 80% of patients returned to walking, yard work, and other
light activity one week after undergoing the procedure.
The study was published in the January 2008 issue of Arthroscopy: The Journal of
Arthroscopic and Related Surgery and tested the hypothesis that a majority of
patients return to unrestricted activity within four weeks after the procedure.
Eighty-two percent of patients reported that they were able to return to light
activity one week after surgery. That improved to 94% after two weeks and 100%
after four weeks.
"This is good news for baby boomers and athletes alike," said James Lubowitz,
M.D., the study's lead author and director of the Taos Orthopaedic Institute in
New Mexico. "For people where non-surgical treatments did not work for their
knee damage, arthroscopy appears to yield promising results for people who want
to get back on their feet shortly after surgery."
Researchers had 72 knee surgery patients—whose median age was 44—complete
diaries before the surgery and at intervals up to 24 weeks after surgery.
Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery is a monthly
publication of the Arthroscopy Association of North America, a specialty society
of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
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