Can I Sit In A Recliner After Hip Replacement? A PT’s Advice
“Can I sit in my recliner chair” is a question almost every total hip replacement patient asks, when I see them in their home as a physical therapist to start their home program, about two days...
Crossing Legs After Total Hip Surgery: (A PT’s Complete Guide)
Over the many years that I, as a physical therapist, have seen patients with a total hip replacement, the instruction the patient typically does not understand is the instruction: “Don’t cross...
Stairs After Total Hip Replacement: A Physical Therapy Guide
As a physical therapist seeing home-bound total hip replacement patients immediately after hospital discharge, I see many patients with two-story homes that elect to reside on the first floor of the...
Best Exercises To PREPARE For Total Knee Surgery: (The CORRECT Ones!)
The research article Prehabilitation Before Total Knee Arthroplasty Increases Strength and Function in Older Adults With Severe Osteoarthritis confirms my professional opinion as a physical therapist...
Precautions After Total Knee Surgery: (Immediate and life-long)
When I first started seeing total knee replacement patients as a physical therapist many years ago, the total knee recipient would have been in the hospital for up to 2 weeks and placed in a knee...
TENS After Total Knee Surgery: (A PT’s Settings & Pad Placement)
As a physical therapist, having used TENS units to help all kinds of patient’s pains on almost every body part, I was introduced to how powerful a TENS unit can be about 40 years ago, early in my...
