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## Introduction: To help combat the sars-cov-2 (covid-19) pandemic, elective inpatient procedures have been reduced. the authors hypothesized that a nationwide lockdown would negatively affect the postoperative outcome after total knee arthroplasty (tka) due to reduced physiotherapy as well as restrictions in external facilities of physiotherapy and rehabilitation. ## Materials and methods: We conducted a retrospective, comparative study including 41 patients who had undergone primary tka during the first lockdown of the covid-19 pandemic from march 2020 to april 2020 and a comparable control group consisting of 47 patients with a minimum follow-up of 6 months before the covid-19 pandemic from 2019. relevant end points were the visual analogue scale (vas) for pain, knee society function score (kss), oxford knee score (oks), western ontario and mcmaster universities osteoarthritis index (womac), and range of motion (rom). ## Results: The lockdown group had a significantly worse outcome compared to the control group 6 months after tka regarding womac (p = 0.001), kss (p < 0.001), oks (p < 0.001), and length of hospital stay (p < 0.001). we found no statistically significant differenc
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- Author
- Patrick Reinbacher; Ulrike Wittig; Georg Hauer; Alexander Draschl; Andreas Leithner; Patrick Sadoghi
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)