NIH R01 · 2024
Preoperative perturbation training to prevent falls after total knee arthroplasty
Falls are the most common cause for injury-related hospitalization in older adults and account for over $50 billion per year in medical costs. For the ~27% of US adults with symptomatic osteoarthritis (OA) the odds of falling are up to 54% higher than for people without OA. The high incidence of falls associated with OA remains high after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The incidence of falls during the first year after TKA is up to 51.8%. With over 750,000 TKAs performed annually, the scope of the problem is large. Despite several calls in the literature for new methods to decrease fall rate after TKA, there are, to our knowledge, no such interventions specifically targeting this group. Our…
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