Effect of Early Rehabilitation on Gait,Wound and Home Discharge in Lower Extremity Chronic Wound Patients: A Japanese Multicenter Retrospective Study

Abstract

This study investigated the effect of early rehabilitation on gait restoration, wound healing, and home discharge in patients with lower extremity (LE) chronic wounds. This multicenter, retrospective cohort study included 233 Japanese inpatients who received treatment for LE chronic wounds from April 2012 to March 2015. A multivariate analysis was conducted using outcomes of gait restoration, wound healing, and home discharge as dependent variables. Other survey items were used as independent variables. Early rehabilitation was extracted as an independent factor with gait restoration (hazard ratio [HR] 1.82, P < .01) and home discharge (HR 1.77, P < .001) as dependent factors by the stepwise method in Cox proportional-hazards regression analysis, but it was not extracted as an independent factor with wound healing as the dependent factor by the stepwise method as well as the forced entry method (P = .44). A significant relationship between the presence of gait restoration and home discharge was observed in the chi-square test (P<.001), and the duration from admission to gait restoration was significantly correlated to the duration from admission to home discharge (Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient; r=.89, P<.0001). Early rehabilitation was a positive factor for gait restoration and home discharge in chronic LE wound patients.

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lower extremity chronic wounds early rehabilitation gait restoration wound healing home discharge

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