Total Hip Replacement Paper

Total hip replacements due to osteoarthritis are common among the middle aged and elderly population ( Ref). In a study conducted in Brazil, researchers looked at several factors that impacted returning to activities of daily life to determine which rehabilitation protocol was more effective. This study focused on the care received post operatively for fifteen days after total hip replacements related to osteoarthritis had been performed. In this study, participants were evaluated to measure the outcomes of using two different rehabilitation protocols for activities of daily living, mobility, and pain*. The participants that were invited to be in the study were patients that had a total hip replacement between July 2009 and October 2011. This created a sample size of 106 participants for the study. Once the participants gave consent they were randomly assigned to one of two groups. The groups were informed that one would receive the protocol and the other would receive a different protocol. The …show more content…
The researchers took a sample from a population to apply the results of the study to that population for better outcomes post total hip replacement. The parametric aspect is that the researchers utilized interval/ratio levels of measurement to rate the independent variables with the participants. These levels of measurement assisted researchers to gage advancement towards activities of daily living after a hip replacement. The findings showed that the total hip arthroplasty physiotherapy care protocol was measured above group one, which received only the protocol without daily exercise. The use of these methods stated that the total hip arthroplasty physiotherapy care protocol was more effective. By using inferential statistics, the sample could be replicated and applied to the population yielding the same results. Inferential statistical analysis