New research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) shows that, surprisingly, patients' physical activity does not increase following hip replacement surgery.
Total hip replacement is one of the most common elective operations, with more than 620,000 procedures performed in the UK from 2003-2013. The most prevalent cause for needing surgery is osteoarthritis (93 per cent).
But the research, published in the journal Clinical Rehabilitation, brings the purpose of a hip replacement into question.
This study is the first systematic review specifically to examine the differences in physical activity pre compared to post-surgery hip replacement.
