Anterior versus posterior approach total hip arthroplasty: patient-reported and functional outcomes in the early postoperative period.

CONCLUSIONS: Patients undergoing DA THA discontinued their assistive device, left their home, and drove a car sooner than posterior approach patients. We found improvement in physical function with DA, and it persisted up to 5 weeks postoperatively. Furthermore, DA patients had significantly shorter length of stay, improved mobilisation, decreased narcotic requirements and improved inpatient pain scores compared to posterior approach THA. Future randomised controlled study should be performed to minimise the biases inherent in this study methodology and confirm the results.
PMID: 31588801 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Hip International - October 5, 2019 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Martusiewicz A, Delagrammaticas D, Harold RE, Bhatt S, Beal MD, Manning DW Tags: Hip Int Source Type: research