27 October 2022: Clinical Research
Retrospective Study from a Single Center in Poland of Postoperative Outcomes of Muscle Strength in Patients After Surgical Suturing of the Achilles Tendon Using a Kessler’s Suture and 28 Weeks of Supervised Postoperative Physiotherapy
Łukasz Sikorski 1BCDEF* , Andrzej Czamara 12ABDEGDOI: 10.12659/MSM.938267
Med Sci Monit 2022; 28:e938267
Table 2 The between-group comparison of the values corresponding to age, body mass, body height, body mass index, Tegner activity scale, duration of postoperative physiotherapy, number of postoperative physiotherapy sessions, dominant side, operated side.
| Experimental Group | Group | p | Subgroup | p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A (n=20) (M±SD) | B (n=20) (M±SD) | IA (n=6) (M±SD) | IB (n=9) (M±SD) | |||
| Age (years) | 34.90±6.41 | 35.25±4.91 | 0.871* | 32.50±5.09 | 36.67±6.20 | 0.196** |
| Body mass (kg) | 90.80±11.75 | 83.33±15.62 | * | 85.83±12.97 | 91.44±12.42 | 0.408** |
| Body height (cm) | 184.25±9.00 | 179.50±5.73 | 0.054* | 182.17±12.97 | 185.67±7.57 | 0.518** |
| BMI (kg·m) | 26.71±2.56 | 25.76±3.77 | 0.117* | 27.14±3.13 | 26.92±2.48 | 0.880** |
| Duration of SVPh (weeks) | 28 | n/a | – | 28 | 28 | – |
| Number of SVPh visits in all postoperative physiotherapy stages | 47.25±18.03 | n/a | – | 71.67±9.75 | 33.22±5.54 | ≤** |
| Frequency of SVPh visits in each week | 1.69±0.64 | 2.56±0.35 | 1.19±0.2 | ** | ||
| Number of SVPh visits in the last two postoperative physiotherapy stages | 13.00±10.94 | n/a | – | 26.67±10.03 | 7.22±3.67 | ** |
| Frequency of SVPh visits in each week in last two stages | 0.87±0.73 | n/a | 1.78±0.67 | 0.48±0.24 | * | |
| TAS | 7.45±0.67 | 7.35±0.75 | 0.417** | 7.67±0.82 | 7.33±0.5 | 0.414** |
| Operated leg | Right (n=9), Left (n=11) | Right (n=0), Left (n=0) | – | Right (n=3), Left (n=3) | Right (n=4), Left (n=5) | – |
| Dominant leg | Right (n=19), Left (n=1) | Right (n=20), Left (n=0) | 1.00*** | Right (n=6), Left (n=0) | Right (n=8), Left (n=1) | 0.654*** |
| M – mean value; SD – standard deviation; – statistical significance level; kg·m, patient’s body mass multiplied by patient’s body height in m; – number of individuals n/a – not applicable; SVPh – supervised postoperative physiotherapy; BMI – body mass index; TAS – Tegner activity scale. Group A: after surgical suturing of Achilles tendon; Group B: control; subgroups IA and IB selected from group A, based on the number of SVPh sessions. ≤0.05 is indicated in bold. * test; ** Mann-Whitney U test; *** Yates-corrected chi-square test. | ||||||