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...
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...
