Exercise- and education-based prehabilitation before total knee arthroplasty: a pilot study.

"The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose."

"The local ethics committee of Zurich, Switzerland approved the study protocol prior to recruitment (BASEC-Nr. 2020-03060)."

"The study protocol was registered and previously published on ClinicalTrials.gov (ID: NCT05314985). This pilot study was designed as a parallel-group randomized controlled trial conducted at Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland. The study protocol was registered and previously published on ClinicalTrials.gov (ID: NCT05314985) and approved by the local ethics committee of Zurich, Switzerland, prior to recruitment (BASEC-Nr 2020-03060). This study was conducted in accordance with Good Clinical Practice guidelines, the guiding principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, and was reported according to the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) 2010 statement extension to randomized pilot and feasibility trials ()."