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Home-Based Prehabilitation Reduces Pain Catastrophizing Before Knee Arthroplasty

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November 2025

Home-Based Prehabilitation Reduces Pain Catastrophizing Before Knee Arthroplasty

Vol: 307| Issue: 11| Number:10| ISSN#: 2564-2537
Study Type:Therapy
OE Level Evidence:1
Journal Level of Evidence:1

Preoperative Home-Based Multimodal Physiotherapy in Patients Scheduled for a Knee Arthroplasty Who Catastrophize About Their Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

J Clin Med . 2025 Jan 5;14(1):268.

Contributing Authors:
M Terradas-Monllor H Beltran-Alacreu M Ochandorena-Acha E Garcia-Oltra F Aliaga-Orduña J Hernández-Hermoso

Synopsis

Forty patients with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis and Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) ≥ 20 were randomized to usual care control (n=15), therapeutic patient education (TPE; 3 one-to-one home sessions with pain neuroscience education + coping skills; n=13), or multimodal physiotherapy (MPT; 8 one-to-one home sessions adding supervised therapeutic exercise and manual therapy; n=12). The primary o...

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