title: Athletic activity after total joint replacement.
abstract: Total hip and knee replacement surgery is a successful treatment for the arthritic hip and knee ensuring proven pain relief and return of function. Younger, more active patients who have greater expectations and higher demands are receiving hip and knee replacements. With current surgical techniques and implant designs, athletic participation should be limited to low impact, low demand, and low duration activity. Future advancesin bearing surfaces may allow for higher demand activities.
authors.affiliation: Division of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center, Lexington, USA.
authors.forename: Mathew A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Nicholls
authors.forename: Jeffrey B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Selby
authors.forename: James M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Hartford
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006622:Hip Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D007720:Knee Prosthesis; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010809:Physical Fitness; D011379:Prognosis; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D011788:Quality of Life; D011998:Recreation; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012737:Sex Factors; D013177:Sports