Welcome to the informative space of Age In Place School, a division of Buena Physical Therapy, Inc., where we aim to empower you with knowledge on your journey of recovery. Kneeling after a knee replacement can be a concern for many, bringing forward questions about the practicality and safety of such activities post-surgery. Whether it’s…
This article answers the question, “Can I sit in my recliner after total knee replacement surgery?” This is the question almost every total knee replacement patient asks me on my first visit to see them in their home to initiate their home physical therapy rehabilitation, about two days after the surgery. Most have already discovered…
In this article, I am going to cover how much a total hip replacement recipient should walk at all three stages of the recovery after surgery: the hospital stay, the in-home physical therapy, the outpatient physical therapy, and the independent continuation of the rehabilitation process to complete recovery. How often should I walk after total…
This article will explain the correct way to use cold therapy options to reduce pain and swelling after a total hip replacement surgery. As a physical therapist, this is what I advise my patients after having seen hundreds of post-op total hip replacement recipients over the first three weeks after surgery. An almost universal problem…
As a healthcare provider, a senior citizen, and a patient that required three medications to control my high blood pressure, I started taking L-Arginine as a dietary supplement in 2006 and it has lowered my blood pressure and decreased my need for prescription blood pressure medications dramatically. Prior to initiating L-Arginine supplementation, using three doctor-prescription…
What Is The Best Way To Generate Income In Retirement? The best way to generate income in retirement is to start a blog, share the knowledge one has gained over the years from work and life experiences or interests, and monetize that blog.Blogging is the least expensive investment one can make to have the potential…
Does Medicare cover maintenance care? Medicare covers maintenance care for patients who qualify under CMS guidelines of requiring skilled care in a homebound status, in a hospital, an outpatient rehab setting, or a skilled nursing facility without needing documentation of improvement. Medicare Maintenance Care explained by Medicare In the past, CMS mandated that services provided…
As a physical therapist, having done thousands of home rehabilitation treatments of total hip recipients, starting within 48 hours of discharge from their 2-day hospital stay, one thing is perfectly clear: All total hip replacement surgeons are not equal. This article represents the information I feel I would need to select the best total hip…
After seeing hundreds, if not thousands of total hip replacement patients in the past 40 years, be they in the hospital immediately after surgery, in their homes a day or two after surgery, or in the outpatient clinic about three weeks after surgery, these are the things that I see that are the most important…
As an orthopedic physical therapist, I have seen hundreds, if not thousands, of total hip replacement surgeries over the more than 4 decades of treating patients as a hospital-based physical therapist, outpatient physical therapy owner/operator, and for the past several years seeing total hip replacement patients in their homes just a day or two after…