Effects of 6 weeks of cryotherapy plus compression therapy after total or unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: protocol for a single-centre, single-blind randomised controlled trial.

The added value of compression was confirmed by a recently updated Cochrane review that showed a trend favouring the combination of cold and compression over cryotherapy alone. 11 A systematic review by Wyatt et al , (2022), who included six recent RCTs between 2017 and 2022 showed not only decreased perceived pain but also a reduction in opioid consumption in the cryotherapy group within the first

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