Systemic Low Dose Corticosteroid Improves Early Postoperative Knee Function and Pain Intensity in Patients Undergoing Unilateral Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Blinded Controlled Randomized Clinical Trial.

JB JS Open Access · 2026 · PMC13004203 · PMID 41869490

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At week 4, the celecoxib + prednisolone group showed borderline significantly greater ROM (104.10 ± 14.05 vs. 97.44 ± 16.43; p = 0.05).

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Improvement was clinically confirmed by controlling for the effect of age with borderline significance.

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