Home-based Rehabilitation Following a Total Hip Replacement

"The intervention reflects the standard rehabilitation practice at Elective Surgery Centre. 3 weeks after surgery the patients will receive a thorough instruction and supervision in the strength training exercises that they are to perform without supervision at their own homes the following 7 weeks. The instruction is conducted one-to-one by physiotherapists and supported by an instruction booklet with written and illustrated exercise descriptions. The exercises included are: hip abduction, flexion and extension with elastic band resistance and sit-to-stand and one-legged stance. The prescribed training load will be two sets with repetitions to failure and a relative load of 10 to 20 RM (Repetition Maximum), performed every second day (3-4 times a week).~Exposure: Performed exercise dose will be quantified as the total physiological exercise stimulus (Time under tension summary dose) recorded by a sensor (BandCizer) attached to the elastic exercise band."