Physiotherapy and Therapeutic Education on Patients With Pain Catastrophism Scheduled for a Total Knee Arthroplasty

"This program is mainly based in Explain Pain concept, used in multiple rehabilitation programs. Its aim is to change the subject's pain understanding, teaching them the biological processes underneath the pain construct, as a mechanism to reduce itself and its related maladaptive thoughts and behaviors."

This intervention will be divided in pain neuroscience education, orthopedic manual therapy and therapeutic exercise.

Usual care will be divided in: preoperative biomedical group-based education, postoperative hospital rehabilitation and home-based postoperative physiotherapy.