Assessing Outcomes of Physical Therapy Intervention Following Knee or Hip Replacement: Should PTs Rely on Performance-Based Measures, Self-Report Measures, or Both?

Participants: Inge van den Akker-Scheek, PhD, and Deborah M Kennedy, BScPT, MSc. Moderator: Daniel Riddle, PT, PhD, FAPTA, Deputy Editor in Chief of PTJ.

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• Discussion Podcast - Riddle sums up the focus of this podcast: “Clinicians have an extensive number of outcomes measures available to them—and they face extreme difficulty in deciding what to use and when to use it.” Akker-Scheek is a human movement scientist and epidemiologist and is the lead author of “Physical Functioning Before and After Total Hip Arthroplasty: Perception and Performance” (June 2008). She chats with Riddle and Kennedy, a physical therapist at Holland Orthopaedic & Arthritic Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the lead author of “Assessing Recovery and Establishing Prognosis Following Total Knee Arthroplasty” (January 2008).

  “Patients cannot rate their physical functioning apart from pain.”

  “We’re learning different information from each type of test.”

  “The key question is, ‘What do you want to know?’ ”

  “Clinicians should be aware that there’s a lot of research emerging now that hopefully will guide us to have a tool that is useful both from a research perspective and in the clinical setting.”

  Running time: 21:25 (10,053 KB)