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Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 6 Physiotherapy results

From: Effectiveness of psychological support in patients undergoing primary total hip or knee arthroplasty: a controlled cohort study

  

EXP

CTR

p value

Delta autonomy days [mean ± SD (days)]

All patients

7.2 ± 2.2

8.2 ± 2.3

0.0023*

Hip arthroplasty group

6.7 ± 1.8

7.9 ± 2.2

0.0015*

Knee arthroplasty group

8.1 ± 2.4

8.8 ± 2.3

0.2424

  1. Calculation performed on 92 patients in the EXP group (59 hips; 33 knees) and 93 patients in the CTR group (61 hips; 32 knees). Data analysed by Student’s t test and confirmed by Mann–Whitney test. p-values refer to t test
  2. * Significance at p < 0.05
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