ArticlePhysical therapy2019
Incorporating Specific Functional Strength Integration Techniques to Improve Functional Performance for Veterans After Total Hip Arthroplasty: Protocol for a Randomized Clinical Trial.
Article in Physical therapy, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.
- Comparative efficacy of early exercise interventions for recovery outcomes after total knee arthroplasty: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Comparison of Therapeutic Effects of Different Rehabilitation Methods on Patients Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Network Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Orthopaedic surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Osteoarthritis: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment.MedComm · 2026Review
- Gait compensations, pain, and functional performance during the six minute walk test in individuals with unilateral hip osteoarthritis.Clinical biomechanics (Bristol, Avon) · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundTotal hip arthroplasty (THA) is a common procedure, yet persistent deficits in functional performance exist after surgery. These deficits may be related to movement compensations observed after THA, which negatively affect quality of life and may increase morbidity and health care utilization, including in the veteran population. However, the best rehabilitative approach to remediating movement compensations and physical function deficits has not been determined.
objectiveThe objective is to determine if a functional strength integration intervention (FSI), as part of a post-THA rehabilitation program, improves movement compensation, physical function, muscle strength, and self-reported outcome measures more than a control group (CON) undergoing a standard of care exercise program.
designThis is a 2-arm randomized, controlled clinical trial.
settingThe Veteran Affairs outpatient physical therapy clinics and academic research laboratory will be the settings.
participantsOne hundred veterans undergoing THA for hip osteoarthritis will be included in the study.
interventionsParticipants will be randomized to either the FSI or CON group and participate in visits of physical therapy over 8 weeks. The FSI protocol will include targeted exercise to improve muscular control and stability around the hip and trunk to minimize movement compensation during daily activity combined with progressive resistance exercise. The CON protocol will include patient education, flexibility activity, and low load resistance exercise. MEASUREMENTS: Functional performance, muscle strength and endurance, and self-reported outcomes will be measured at baseline (prior to surgery), midway through intervention (6 weeks after surgery), at the end of intervention (10 weeks after surgery), and 26 weeks after THA. LIMITATIONS: The inability to blind treating therapists to study arm allocation is a limitation.
conclusionsThe proposed study aims to determine if targeted FSI can affect movement compensation to improve functional outcomes after THA more than traditional rehabilitation paradigms.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.