Abstracts tagged "Activity score and total joint replacement"

Abstract Number: 1091 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Trends in Patient Physical Activity Before and After Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty
Anne Lübbeke¹, Dorith Zimmermann², Constantinos Roussos¹, Alexis Bonvin¹, Robin Peter¹ and Pierre Hoffmeyer¹, ¹Orthopaedic Surgery, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland, ²Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Total hip arthroplasties (THA) are performed to reduce pain and enhance patients’ function and physical activity (PA) level. PA is also recognized as the…