More intensive hospital physiotherapy has been found to be safe and effective in reducing length of hospital stays, research published in the Medical Journal of Australia has found.
Senior physiotherapist Ms Lara Kimmel and colleagues from Alfred Health, Monash University and LaTrobe University, completed a randomised trial of 92 patients aged 65 years or more with isolated hip fractures, comparing regular once-daily physiotherapy sessions with sessions three times a day.
After the pre-operative differences between the groups were taken into account, there was a significant difference in functional mobility at day 5 after operation.
