Hip replacement can mark the beginning of a much more active chapter, but recovery does not happen all at once. Patients often want to know when they can walk without assistance.
Joint replacement used to mean a week in the hospital, a long incision through major muscle, and months before walking felt normal again. That picture is rapidly becoming outdated.
Joint replacement patients today are increasingly asking their surgeons about what they can do beyond the standard protocol to support their recovery.
Most people blame a sore knee on a tough workout or chalk up stiff hips to sleeping wrong. For a while, that explanation holds.
Outpatient joint replacement is changing the way patients recover from hip and knee surgery.
For patients considering hip or knee replacement, surgical technology has advanced dramatically in recent years.
