Overview
To conduct a pilot feasibility study to determine the effect of a student-led prehabilitation service in people awaiting total hip or knee replacement surgery.
Description
The aim of BoneFit is to provide local people living in the Hull region with a needs-based prehabilitation care package to improve their physical and mental health, quality of life & reduce their length of hospital stay, complications and readmission rates to hospital following orthopaedic surgery (total hip replacement, or total knee replacement.
Currently, Hull University Teaching Hospitals do not offer a prehabilitation service for local patients. The University of Hull will partner with them to provide a student-led multimodal prehabilitation service for referred patients awaiting orthopaedic surgery.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Waiting for unilateral total hip or knee replacement surgery for a minimum of 6 months;
- Able to provide informed consent;
Exclusion Criteria:
- Previous hip or knee surgery;
- Any medical conditions for which moderate to vigorous exercise is contraindicated;
- Patellar or hip joint instability;
- Any other disease/condition which severely effects functional performance e.g. stroke or Parkinson's disease;
- Chronic depression or significant psychiatric disorder;
- Enrolled in a clinical trial (or recently completed one);
- Cognitive impairment which would affect compliance to BoneFIt service;
- Patients unable or unwilling to commit to required study follow-ups
- Pregnancy;