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Return to work after total hip and knee arthroplasty: a systematic review
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Table 2: continued Total Hip Arthroplasty
Foote et al. (23)
Working prior to surgery (yes/no)
Working postoperatively (yes/no)
27/41 patients (65.9%) working before surgery
23/41 (56.1%) working after surgery (22 of the 27 (81%) who were working preoperatively).
median 12 weeks (range 4-52) (23 patients)
Styron et al. (24)
Occupational and physical demands;
Ability to perform job responsibilities
Employment status (employed at least part-time or not employed at three months postoperatively);
All 162 patients were working, 10 were working <30 h/week and excluded from follow-up analyses
Three months after surgery 117/152 patients (72.2%) had returned to work at least part-time
Median 8.9 weeks
Definition of work status pre-operatively
Definition of work status postoperatively
Work situation prior to surgery
Work situation after surgery
Time to return to work
Motivation to return to work
Time to return to work (length of time from patients’ surgery to their return to any amount of work and to to working full-time)
Physical job demands: Low 44 (27.2%) Moderate 74 (45.7%) High 44 (27.2%)
109/152 (71.7%) had returned to work fulltime
THA: total hip arthroplasty;TKA: total knee arthroplasty.
Effect of TKA on ability to return to work (graded
1-5 with 1 being significant worsening to 5 being a significant improvement). Rating of physical intensity of postoperative occupation (less, same or more)
6/41 patients (14.6%) rated the impact of surgery on
their ability to work as (significantly) worse, 12 as
no change (29.3%) and 23 as (some) improvement (56.1%).
Time from operation to return to work, performing normal duties
5 patients rated work as less physically intense, 12 as the same and 1 as more intense.
26 (16.1%) self-employed 2 (1.2%) receiving workers compensation