Best Tips to Take Care After Your Knee Replacement Surgery

Recovering from any surgery would require the help and support of people around you, especially of your doctor and medical team along with your friends and family members. The initial days following the knee replacement surgery can be difficult for the patient as the pain from surgery may persist. Also, carrying out daily activities or doing things by themselves would be difficult as you may be in recovery period. Let’s find out certain tips to keep in mind following the knee replacement surgery.

• Start with the basics: Once you get discharged from the hospital, it doesn’t mean that you have fully recovered. The complex phase will be over once you leave the hospital. Setting up your home for complete recovery would be done and it should be equipped with things you may need like pillows to elevate your legs, ice pack to get pain relief, phone to ease out communication with others, medications, walkers, clothes and clean sheets to sleep, sterilized dressing materials for your knee. Having someone at your house would also be good so that you can have food and medicines on time and can call them for help if needed
• Medications and wound care: As mentioned earlier, if someone is there to assist you or help you out, they can also help you in caring for your wound as well. Gathering the medications, administering them on time and re-stocking them according to the needs should be done by the person who helps you out. Monitoring the wound for any swelling or inflammation, dressing the wound at regular intervals, re-stocking bandages and other medicines as needed can also be done by the person who assists you…

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Dr Chirag Patel

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