Can I Sit In A Recliner After Knee Replacement? A PT’s Advice
This article answers the question” “Can I sit in my recliner chair after my total knee replacement surgery?” This is the question almost every total knee replacement patient asks me on my...
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...
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...
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...
