ArticleAnnals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England2009
The effect of total knee replacement on employment in patients under 60 years of age.
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- Occupational advice to help people return to work following lower limb arthroplasty: the OPAL intervention mapping study.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2020Trial
- Forecasting the value of innovation in total knee arthroplasty care: A headroom approach.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2024Article
- Psychosocial Working Conditions Play an Important Role in the Return-to-Work Process After Total Knee and Hip Arthroplasty.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Patients return to work sooner after unicompartmental knee arthroplasty than after total knee arthroplasty.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2020Article
- Factors influencing return to work after hip and knee arthroplasty.Journal of orthopaedics and traumatology : official journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology · 2019Article
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- Decreased Time to Return to Work Using Robotic-Assisted Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty Compared to Conventional Techniques.Surgical technology international · 2018Article
- Determinants of return to work 12 months after total hip and knee arthroplasty.Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 2016Observational
- Return to work after total hip and knee arthroplasty: results from a clinical study.Rheumatology international · 2015Article
- Understanding the patient-reported factors determining time taken to return to work after hip and knee arthroplasty.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2015Article
- Do patients return to work after total knee arthroplasty?Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2014Article
- The older worker with osteoarthritis of the knee.British medical bulletin · 2012Review
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Abstract
introductionThe effect of primary total knee replacement on the employment status of 56 patients under 60 years of age was examined at a mean follow-up of 64 months. PATIENTS AND
methodsA total of 56 primary total knee replacements performed on patients under the age of 60 years by two surgeons between 1996 and 2003 were retrospectively assessed by postal questionnaire. Patients were selected from databases held at Holly House and Newham Hospital NHS Trust.
resultsOverall, 97.5% of patients who were employed before their operation, returned to their previous work. However, in patients not working prior to total knee replacement none were employed after their operation.
conclusionsTotal knee replacement may be a valuable tool to help some patients to continue working but may not affect patients who are already unemployed.
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