Background: Knee arthritis is a destructive disorder that affects the knee joints and causes pain and reduced mobility. Drug treatments, weight loss, and exercise control the symptoms of the disease, but these methods only delay the disease process and eventually, knee joint replacement surgery ...
Every patient is different, with many using a walker for about two weeks after a total knee replacement. Goodyear said Hoffman was able to get rid of the walker soon after his surgery. He then began eight weeks of physical therapy with Tyrel Reed, a physical therapist at the LMH Health W...
Return to regular sports activity was evaluated in a retrospective review of 160 patients who had undergone total knee replacement surgery by a single surgeon (208 knee replacements). Mean age of the patients was 68 years (range, 27 to 87) at surgery and 73 years (range, 33 to 91) at ...
Knee replacement surgery can change a person's life for the better in many ways12.Many patients are able to resume activities they have been unable to do for some time. Sleeping after a total knee replacement can present something of a challenge, however, and learning some tricks to help yo...
The recovery process for surgery after a total knee replacement procedure is generally longer than a partial replacement. Whether you’re having a partial or total knee replacement surgery, here’s what you can expect for the weeks following the procedure: Week 1 Day of surge...
Preoperative pain characteristics in patients with osteoarthritis may explain persistent pain after total knee replacement. Fifty patients awaiting total knee replacement and 22 asymptomatic controls were recruited to evaluate the degree of neuropathic pain symptoms and pain sensitization. Patients with OA wer...
Allison, PT DPT from our StoneFit Physical Therapy team walks through what to expect after your knee replacement surgery at The Stone Clinic. The knee replacement surgery patient experience has changed dramatically thanks to innovations in robotic knee replacement techniques. From day one, the knee ...
total knee replacementnursingindividualizationperioperative periodvalgus deformity of the kneeObjective:To evaluate the perioperative nursing of total knee arthroplasty for patients with valgus deformity of the knee.Methods:Seventy-six patients who underwent surgical treatment were enrolled in the study from Ma...
An abnormal flexor moment pattern is often evident following total knee replacement (TKR) surgery. We investigated whether such a pattern at 12 months post-surgery could be predicted using biomechanical gait measures assessed before surgery and at 4 months post-surgery. Thirty two TKR patients were...
For the study, the team included 48 patients needing total knee replacement surgery. Of these patients, half were randomly assigned to receive vancomycin and morphine injected directly into the bone marrow, using an infusion device that was inserted into the tibial tubercle region. The remaining we...