3 Common Issues Patients Face After Knee Replacement |Dr.Chirag Patel

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Title: 3 Common Issues Patients Face After Knee Replacement |Dr.Chirag Patel

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3 Common Issues Patients Face After Knee
Replacement

Pain in the knee joints can be extremely
annoying. The knee replacement surgery is
performed to replace the knee joints that are
bearing weight with metal or plastic components.
This allows a better movement of the joints and
gets rid of the excruciating pain.

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Replacement

But it is not all smiles and laughs about this
procedure.
There are a few issues that patients face after
knee replacement, and here are the three major
ones
1. Knee Pain
As ironic as it may sound, but the aftermath of a
total knee replacement surgery that is performed
to get rid of the pain is also pain, which is
accompanied by swelling and stiffening. However,
it is not as bad as it sounds. Patients generally
observe a noticeable improvement in their pain
and swelling within ten weeks, but it takes
almost a year after the surgery for most patients
to permanently get rid of the discomfort.

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Replacement

2. No movement of the knee
Your knee replacement specialist would provide
you with a list of restrictions after the surgery
that you have to adhere to. Activities that
stress the joint of the knees such as kneeling,
squatting and driving are supposed to be avoided
in this observation and recovery period. In the
first five weeks of the knee surgery, these
restrictions are to be kept in mind strictly, and
they are relaxed gradually as the status of the
patients health improves.

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3. No movement without support
This brings us to the next challenge that
patients with recent knee replacements face. The
patients are unable to walk without support for
almost a month and a half, and they need constant
use of walking aids for the necessary movements.
And it sort of makes sense too- you wouldnt want
to stress your knee out after surgery by walking
around. They can change their walking aids from a
simple walker to crutches as their health
improves. But in the initial days after the
surgery, you need someones help with daily
assistance in your chores.

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3 Common Issues Patients Face After Knee
Replacement

Most of these challenges are bearable if one has
enough determination to get through it all.
However, you can make the process of knee
replacement a little better by getting the
surgery done by one of the best knee replacement
surgeons in Mumbai, Dr. Chirag Patel.

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3 Common Issues Patients Face After Knee
Replacement

Dr. Chirag Patel is a highly qualified and
skilled professional with immense expertise in
his field. He specializes in the treatment of
orthopedic conditions of the hip and the knee
joint. With a whole lot of impressive educational
and professional qualifications, he provides his
patients with all the prerequisites and knowledge
that they need before coming to the part of
assessing their options.
The patients feel
free to ask their queries because of Dr. Chirags
warm and friendly nature, hence the must-needed
trust between the doctor and patient is formed
effortlessly. Be it the doubts regarding the
aftermath, the recovery, or the dilemma of knee
injections vs. knee replacement Dr. Chirag
Patel addresses each doubt patiently. All the
additional information is available on his
website, so you can check it out for more
details.