“After knee arthroplasty, the preoperative and postoperative use of cryotherapy is effective in terms of the pain control and functional knee scores.”

Direct quote from abstract’s conclusion

“The pain and functional knee scores of the patients who received Cryo/Cuff application

were significantly different and as expected, the use of analgesics was much lower.”

Direct quote from abstract’s conclusion

Take home message

• Patients using Waegener’s cTreatment concept score higher on KSS (Knee Society function Score). (p < 0.05)

• Patients using Waegener’s cTreatment concept score lower on a Visual Analogue Scale for pain. (p<0,05)

Conflict of interest

All authors declared that they had no conflict of interest.