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When do patients drive after minimally invasive anterior hip replacements? A single surgeon experience of 212 hip arthroplasties

Introduction: Patients desire to return to normal activities soon after hip arthroplasty, with driving often being an integral component. We aimed to determine when patients resumed driving following a minimally invasive anterior bikini hip replacement and when they returned to work. Methodology: Al...

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Autores principales: Batra, Ashish, Gogos, Sophia, Nizam, Ikram
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EDP Sciences 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6250078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30465649
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/sicotj/2018045
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Gogos, Sophia
Nizam, Ikram
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description Introduction: Patients desire to return to normal activities soon after hip arthroplasty, with driving often being an integral component. We aimed to determine when patients resumed driving following a minimally invasive anterior bikini hip replacement and when they returned to work. Methodology: All consecutive patients undergoing elective primary bikini hip replacements between January 2017 and April 2018 were included in the study. Patients who did not drive were excluded. A detailed questionnaire was sent to patients 3–6 weeks after surgery to record their driving status. Fifty patients were randomly selected to assess flexion at the hip, knee and ankle joints while seated in the driver's seat of their own vehicle. Results: Altogether 212 anterior bikini total hip replacements (L = 102, R = 108 and 1 bilateral one stage) were performed in 198 patients (F = 129 and M = 69) with a mean age of 69 years. A total of 76% patients returned to driving within the first 3 weeks after surgery, of which 25 (14%) resumed driving within the first post-operative week, 71 (39%) in the second week and 42 (23%) in the third week. Among them, 98.4% stated they were confident when they first started driving and 90.66% stated they were more comfortable driving after surgery than before. Employed patients returned to work within 1–79 days (mean = 24 days). Conclusion: Surgeons may allow patients to resume driving within 1 week after anterior hip replacement and return to work within 3 weeks if they are medically fit and deemed safe.
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spelling pubmed-62500782018-12-13 When do patients drive after minimally invasive anterior hip replacements? A single surgeon experience of 212 hip arthroplasties Batra, Ashish Gogos, Sophia Nizam, Ikram SICOT J Original Article Introduction: Patients desire to return to normal activities soon after hip arthroplasty, with driving often being an integral component. We aimed to determine when patients resumed driving following a minimally invasive anterior bikini hip replacement and when they returned to work. Methodology: All consecutive patients undergoing elective primary bikini hip replacements between January 2017 and April 2018 were included in the study. Patients who did not drive were excluded. A detailed questionnaire was sent to patients 3–6 weeks after surgery to record their driving status. Fifty patients were randomly selected to assess flexion at the hip, knee and ankle joints while seated in the driver's seat of their own vehicle. Results: Altogether 212 anterior bikini total hip replacements (L = 102, R = 108 and 1 bilateral one stage) were performed in 198 patients (F = 129 and M = 69) with a mean age of 69 years. A total of 76% patients returned to driving within the first 3 weeks after surgery, of which 25 (14%) resumed driving within the first post-operative week, 71 (39%) in the second week and 42 (23%) in the third week. Among them, 98.4% stated they were confident when they first started driving and 90.66% stated they were more comfortable driving after surgery than before. Employed patients returned to work within 1–79 days (mean = 24 days). Conclusion: Surgeons may allow patients to resume driving within 1 week after anterior hip replacement and return to work within 3 weeks if they are medically fit and deemed safe. EDP Sciences 2018-11-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6250078/ /pubmed/30465649 http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/sicotj/2018045 Text en © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2018 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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When do patients drive after minimally invasive anterior hip replacements? A single surgeon experience of 212 hip arthroplasties
title When do patients drive after minimally invasive anterior hip replacements? A single surgeon experience of 212 hip arthroplasties
title_full When do patients drive after minimally invasive anterior hip replacements? A single surgeon experience of 212 hip arthroplasties
title_fullStr When do patients drive after minimally invasive anterior hip replacements? A single surgeon experience of 212 hip arthroplasties
title_full_unstemmed When do patients drive after minimally invasive anterior hip replacements? A single surgeon experience of 212 hip arthroplasties
title_short When do patients drive after minimally invasive anterior hip replacements? A single surgeon experience of 212 hip arthroplasties
title_sort when do patients drive after minimally invasive anterior hip replacements? a single surgeon experience of 212 hip arthroplasties
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6250078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30465649
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/sicotj/2018045
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