9 things no one ever tells you.
http://www.prevention.com/health/knee-replacement
Item #4 is reassuring.
http://www.prevention.com/health/knee-replacement
Item #4 is reassuring.
It's total myth that younger people recover faster. It doesn't matter if you are 18 or 80 - your knee still experiences the same amount of trauma and it still needs just as long to heal.Another friend said 3 of her coworkers went back to work after TKR at 3-4w. And she said "they're younger than us so maybe they just recovered faster."
They do exist but I would take the reports with a grain of salt.Yet it seems everyone I know has friends in the 2 SDs from the norm on the side of miraculous recovery. Or so they say.
Fay, who has worked with postop knee replacement patients for more than 15 years, believes that the rehab protocol is unnecessarily aggressive.