Physical therapy in the postoperative of proximal femur fracture in elderly. Literature review

The proximal femoral fracture in the elderly is a serious public health problem. Surgical treatment of this fracture is used to reduce morbidity, together with postoperative physical therapy. The objective was to conduct a systematic review of physical therapy protocols in postoperative for fracture...

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Autores principales: Carneiro, Mariana Barquet, Alves, Débora Pinheiro Lédio, Mercadante, Marcelo Tomanik
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Brazilian Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3861999/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24453665
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1413-78522013000300010
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author Carneiro, Mariana Barquet
Alves, Débora Pinheiro Lédio
Mercadante, Marcelo Tomanik
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description The proximal femoral fracture in the elderly is a serious public health problem. Surgical treatment of this fracture is used to reduce morbidity, together with postoperative physical therapy. The objective was to conduct a systematic review of physical therapy protocols in postoperative for fractures of the proximal femur in elderly. We selected randomized controlled trials in elderly in the past 10 years, in Portuguese and English. There were 14 articles in the literature. Physical therapy has an important role in functional recovery of the elderly. Level of Evidence I, Systematic Review RCTs (Study results were homogenous).
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spelling pubmed-38619992014-01-22 Physical therapy in the postoperative of proximal femur fracture in elderly. Literature review Carneiro, Mariana Barquet Alves, Débora Pinheiro Lédio Mercadante, Marcelo Tomanik Acta Ortop Bras Revision Article The proximal femoral fracture in the elderly is a serious public health problem. Surgical treatment of this fracture is used to reduce morbidity, together with postoperative physical therapy. The objective was to conduct a systematic review of physical therapy protocols in postoperative for fractures of the proximal femur in elderly. We selected randomized controlled trials in elderly in the past 10 years, in Portuguese and English. There were 14 articles in the literature. Physical therapy has an important role in functional recovery of the elderly. Level of Evidence I, Systematic Review RCTs (Study results were homogenous). Brazilian Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3861999/ /pubmed/24453665 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1413-78522013000300010 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Carneiro, Mariana Barquet
Alves, Débora Pinheiro Lédio
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Physical therapy in the postoperative of proximal femur fracture in elderly. Literature review
title Physical therapy in the postoperative of proximal femur fracture in elderly. Literature review
title_full Physical therapy in the postoperative of proximal femur fracture in elderly. Literature review
title_fullStr Physical therapy in the postoperative of proximal femur fracture in elderly. Literature review
title_full_unstemmed Physical therapy in the postoperative of proximal femur fracture in elderly. Literature review
title_short Physical therapy in the postoperative of proximal femur fracture in elderly. Literature review
title_sort physical therapy in the postoperative of proximal femur fracture in elderly. literature review
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1413-78522013000300010
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