Getting back behind the wheel after knee replacement surgery is one of the most exciting milestones of recovery, a real sign that your independence is returning. While friends and family may help with errands, appointments, and grocery runs for a little while, that stretch is temporary, and every week of healing brings you closer to driving yourself again.
Hip pain can be surprisingly difficult to pinpoint. A deep ache in the groin often points to the hip joint itself, while discomfort along the outer hip may involve the tendons or other soft tissues nearby.
Joint replacement used to be thought of as a surgery for people in their seventies who had exhausted every other option. That picture has shifted considerably.
Not every arthritic knee needs to be fully replaced. For some patients, only one section of the joint has broken down while the rest remains reasonably healthy, and replacing the entire knee when only part of it is damaged is not always the better choice.
When most people think about knee replacement recovery, they picture the knee itself: the incision, the implant, the swelling. What they rarely consider is the muscle sitting just above it.
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