Why do people not work again after a knee replacement?
Hello
Getting back to living your life and working is one of the main reasons why people seek help and have surgery. So if you are planning to have a total knee replacement, what criteria will predict you won’t return to work (RTW)?
This week we are looking at the reasons why people do not return to work after a knee replacement.
The name of the study is “Which patients do not return to work after totalknee arthroplasty?”
In the article they said“Two out of ten patients do not return to work (RTW) after TKA.”.
20% in my view is already very high.
“A preoperative sick-leave duration >2 weeks (OR 12.5, 90 % CI 5.0–31.5) was most strongly associated with no RTW”
So if your knee pain was so severe you had to takemore than 2 weeks off, that was a major indicator that you wouldn’t go back.
Others are “female sex BMI ≥ 30), patient-reported work-relatedness of knee symptoms), and a physically knee-demanding job.”
They concluded that “obese female workers, with a preoperative sick-leave duration >2 weeks, who perform knee-demanding work and indicate that their knee symptoms are work-related have a high chance for no RTW after TKA.”
Here is the evidence that if you have these kinds of issues, it is better for you toaddress them nowrather than think an operation will help..
OR just avoid having the operation in the first place by doing something very different.
Like this
Jason
