From the Popular Press: What Your Patients are Reading:

Many patients go into total knee replacement surgery without a clear understanding of what the weeks, months, and years following the surgery will be like. Patients often have unrealistic expectations regarding the length of their recovery time, which is in part fueled by their health care providers. In this article, a knee replacement patient offers advice for patients considering undergoing knee replacement surgery, and advises doctors to more adequately prepare their patients for the procedure. Advice for patients includes understanding that it will take months, or possibly years, before they can move about as they once did, that kneeling on artificial knees will always be problematic, some patients require a surgical revision within the first few years of a replacement, and going down steps may always be difficult for patients with new knees. The patient also advises others not to postpone surgery until they are decapacitated by pain, and to thoroughly research different equipment and techniques now being used for total knee replacements.

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