Prospective assessment of functional and clinical results of surgical patellar stabilization in rural and urban populations. Equal chance to success?

CONCLUSIONS: Rehabilitation after MPFL reconstruction improves muscle strength and clinical outcome. Patients from rural areas had inferior functional results in comparison to the patients from major cities, even 12 months after surgical patella stabilization. Despite the development of roads and transport according to the EU cohesion policy, there are still differences in rehabilitation results between rural and city areas.PMID:38549487 | DOI:10.26444/aaem/178137
Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Source Type: research