Benefits of Combining Physical Therapy with Occupational Therapy in Hip Arthroplasty.

(1) Background: Hip arthroplasty (HA) is a surgery that replaces the damaged hip joint with an artificial implant called a hip prosthesis. The increase in life expectancy correlated with the population aging level, to which the increase in the number of prosthetic interventions among the young population is added, translates to the imperative need to analyze the quality of life beyond the immediate postoperative period. Strict adherence to an individualized rehabilitation program (IRP), and adapted to each patient, is followed by an improved quality of life. The main goal is the recovery of the patient with HA. This study was aimed to demonstrate that an IRP, represented by physical therapy associated with occupational therapy, improves the quality of life of patients with HA; (2) Methods: In this study, conducted between 2019 and 2021, 50 patients with HA were divided into two groups: study group-group A (25 subjects compliant with the IRP) and control group-group B (25 subjects, non-compliance with the IRP). To evaluate the two study groups, we monitored the evolution of the modified Harris hip score (mHHS) in both hips (arthroplasty hip (AH), contra lateral hip (CH)), for four months, respectively 30 days before the surgery (T0) and at 90 days after the surgery (T1); (3) Results: We notice significant differences in mHHS values at 90 days-T1 after surgery, both on AH in favor of subjects from group A vs. group B (