Can You Kneel After Knee Replacement? Understanding Kneeling After Surgery Outcomes
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...
Can I Sit In A Recliner After Knee Replacement? A PT’s Advice
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...
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 with 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...
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...
