ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2020
Return to Sport Activity in the Elderly Patients after Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- High rate of return to low-impact physical activity or sports after total and unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: A systematic review with meta-analysis.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2026Pooled it
- Physical activity after unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: Long-term participation, activity volume and patient-reported limitations.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2026Article
- Clinical outcomes of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty in early osteoarthritis without bone-on-bone contact.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2025Article
- Arthroplasty and Tennis: A Narrative Review.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2025Review
- Patients with Robotic Arm-Assisted Medial Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty (mUKA) Regain Their Preoperative Activity Level Two Weeks Earlier Compared to Robotic Arm-Assisted Kinematically Aligned Total Knee Arthroplasty (rKA-TKA).Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Are Current Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Fit for Purpose to Evaluate Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty?Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Comparison of the EQ-5D-3L and EQ-5D-5L instruments in patients undergoing unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- Mobile bearing versus fixed bearing medial unicompartmental knee replacement: an independent two center matched-pairs analysis.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2023Article
- Hypoallergenic unicompartmental knee arthroplasty and return to sport: comparison between Oxidized Zirconium and Titanium Niobium Nitride.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2022Article
- Similar rates of return to sports and BMI reduction regardless of age, gender and preoperative BMI as seen in matched cohort of hypoallergenic and standard Cobalt Chromium medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2022Article
- Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: A PearlDiver study evaluating complications rates, opioid use and utilization in the Medicare population.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2021Article
- Return to sports activity after opening wedge high tibial osteotomy in patients aged 70 years and older.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2021Article
- Return to physical activity and change in body mass index after hypoallergenic medial mobile-bearing unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.Journal of orthopaedics and traumatology : official journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology · 2021Article
- Medial compartment osteoarthritis of the knee: a review of surgical options.EFORT open reviews · 2021Review
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Abstract
In patients with knee osteoarthritis, when only medial or lateral compartment of the knee is involved, unicompartimental knee arthroplasty (UKA) is a reliable option for addressing the symptoms and restore function. The main aim of the present review is to systematically collect the available evidence concerning the return to sport activity in the elderly patients after UKA. An electronic search was carried out on the following databases; Pubmed-Medline, Cochrane central, and Scopus, searching for randomized controlled trials, prospective cohort studies, retrospective case-control studies, and case series. Data concerning the evaluation of the return to sport (RTS) and of functional outcomes in the elderly patients after UKA surgery. MINORS score was used to assess the risk of methodological biases. Odds ratios and raw proportions were used to report the pooled effect of UKA on the return to sport in comparative and non-comparative studies, respectively. Same level RTS in elderly patients was of 86% (pooled return proportion 0.86, 95%CI 0.78, 0.94), showing also better relative RTS and time to RTS of patients undergoing UKA, in comparison to those undergoing TKA. Sport-specific RTS showed that higher return rates were observed for low-impact sports, whereas high-impact sports prevented a full return to activities. UKA is a valid and reliable option for elderly patients to satisfactorily resume their sport practice, especially for low impact activities. The rate of return to sports following UKA is higher than TKA.
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