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...
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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...
Speed Up Recovery After Total Hip Replacement: (a PT’s Advice)
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...
Total Hip Precautions: Anterior, Posterior & Lateral Approaches
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...
Can I Sit In A Recliner After Hip Replacement? A PT’s Advice
This article answers the question” “Can I sit in my recliner chair after my total hip replacement surgery?” This is the question almost every total hip replacement patient asks me on my...
Crossing Legs After Total Hip Surgery: (A PT’s Complete Guide)
As an orthopedic physical therapist, I have treated hundreds, if not thousands, of patients with complete hip replacements over the course of the past 40 years. The one instruction that most...