F
ollowing knee or hip replacement surgery, patients will
be recovering and rehabilitating primarily at home,
something that's easy to forget when you're focused
solely on the treatment delivered during the periopera-
tive process. But an outpatient total joint replacement
program without a coordinated home care component is doomed to
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Home Recovery and Rehab
For Total Joint Patients
Amy Hancock
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Daily visits from nurses and therapists are a necessary
component of outpatient joint surgery.
z ROOM TO RECOVER Beginning their
rehabilitation at home gives outpatient
joint patients additional motivation.
