Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Functional training following hip replacement can improve prosthesis function, patient rehabilitation, enhance muscle power, enlarge joint range of motion and restore concordant of daily life.
OBJECTIVE: To summarize advances in functional rehabilitation training following artificial hip replacement.
METHODS: A computer-based online search of PubMed, CNKI, Wanfang Springer Link and Science Direct was performed for related articles published between 1997 and 2011 with key words “artificial hip joints, Replacement, Sports rehabilitation”.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Artificial hip replacement can effectively relieve pain, reconstruct joint function and improve quality of patient life. Perioperative functional rehabilitation training of hip replacement should be individualized and progressive. The training plan should be formulated according to patient condition, complication, disease tolerance, expectation of functional restoration, and be performed gradually in aspects of duration, amount and frequency to rapidly restore the function with few complications. Early functional rehabilitation training is very important for patients undergoing hip replacement, which can improve pain and walking, and enhance joint range of motion; later functional rehabilitation training can effectively prevent muscular tension reduction and myatrophy induced by limb immobilization.