Results from a randomized clinical trial showed remote postoperative physical therapy may be a viable option for patients discharged the same day after total knee arthroplasty.
“The [electronic remote perioperative management] ERPM [remote physical therapy] RPT program in this study is a viable, cost-effective rehabilitation strategy that offers improved convenience and an excellent means of postoperative patient monitoring for patients who are discharged on the same day after total knee arthroplasty,” the researchers wrote in the study.
Researchers randomly assigned 171 patients