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Physiotherapy
Supervised physiotherapy after arthroscopic partial meniscectomy: is it effective?
1 Manchester Metropolitan University, Hathersage Road, Manchester M13 0JA, UK
2 King’s College London, Shepherds House, Guys Campus, London SE1 1UL, UK
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Correspondence to:
Dr Morrissey
matt.morrissey@kcl.ac.uk
Accepted 29 March 2005
Much more evidence is required to judge whether supervised physiotherapy is effective after arthroscopic partial meniscectomy
Keywords: rehabilitation; partial meniscectomy; physiotherapy; arthroscopy; knee
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Our recently published finding that a supervised physiotherapy programme plus written and verbal advice after arthroscopic partial meniscectomy surgery is no more effective than written and verbal advice alone1 has caused much interest and debate.2 More recently, public debate has arisen from the study by Frost et al,3 reporting in the same vein that routine physiotherapy seems to be no more effective than one session of assessment and advice for low back pain. These results should be applied to clinical practice with caution.
In our work, we evaluated the effectiveness of one method of supervised physiotherapy among an infinite number of programmes that can be used. We found this particular method to not be any more effective than written and verbal advice alone. What we did not find was that supervised physiotherapy is ineffective in this patient population—rather, we found that one method of supervised physiotherapy is ineffective
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