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link to Best Exercises To PREPARE For Total Knee Surgery: (The CORRECT Ones!)

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...

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link to Precautions After Total Knee Surgery: (Immediate and life-long)

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...

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link to TENS After Total Knee Surgery: (A PT’s Settings & Pad Placement)

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...

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link to Showering After a Total Knee Replacement: An OT’s Recommendations

Showering After a Total Knee Replacement: An OT’s Recommendations

One of the first questions my homebound total knee patients ask me (an occupational therapist) when I see them a day or two after they have been discharged to home following total knee replacement...

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link to A PT’s Total Knee Pain Expectations: (Day 1 through Day 30)

A PT’s Total Knee Pain Expectations: (Day 1 through Day 30)

A question I often hear from my patients before undergoing a total knee replacement: Is total knee replacement painful? Total knee replacement is a painful procedure, however, following normal...

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link to Total Knee Replacement Manipulation: (When & Why To Consider)

Total Knee Replacement Manipulation: (When & Why To Consider)

In the past 10 years of seeing patients in their homes and starting their home physical therapy recovery process, I can say that I have seen fewer than 5 patients that require manipulation under...

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