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Nicola Garrett TOTAL knee replacement patients may have a speedier recovery if they take anabolic-androgenic steroids, a small study suggests.
Patients taking steroids showed greater improvements in postoperative quadriceps and hamstring strength, bone mineral density and sit-to-stand testing, the authors reported in BMJ Open.
They also had a shorter hospital stay and needed less inpatient rehabilitation.
However a number of the findings were not statistically significant, leaving the evidence insufficient to recommend the routine administration of steroids to these patients.
Nevertheless, the results of their study justified a randomised trial to confirm the clinical significance of their findings, the authors concluded.
rheumatologyupdate.com.au
Patients taking steroids showed greater improvements in postoperative quadriceps and hamstring strength, bone mineral density and sit-to-stand testing, the authors reported in BMJ Open.
They also had a shorter hospital stay and needed less inpatient rehabilitation.
However a number of the findings were not statistically significant, leaving the evidence insufficient to recommend the routine administration of steroids to these patients.
Nevertheless, the results of their study justified a randomised trial to confirm the clinical significance of their findings, the authors concluded.
rheumatologyupdate.com.au