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After your knee ligament surgery, you may feel ready to jump into your recovery and return to your daily activities or sport as soon as possible, but you will have some limitations while you recover. It is important to plan ahead to avoid some recovery obstacles and build your knee strength over time. You will…
You have probably been preparing for your knee surgery for weeks now, so make sure to run through the tape by following your preoperative (pre-op) instructions the week of your surgery. After all your presurgical appointments, home preparation, and knee surgery, you are probably tired and want to rest. But don’t slack on your postoperative…
Are you considering knee surgery for knee pain, trouble walking, or osteoarthritis but have some questions? While resting, losing weight, and treating the pain with medications, along with physical therapy, maybe conservative treatment options for your knee pain, some patients will have better results with total knee replacement surgery. At the ORTHOKnox orthopedic clinics in…
Am I too young to get a knee replacement? There is no set age cutoff for a knee replacement, as each patient’s case is different. But most implants do wear out over time, and the implant lifespan can decline with increased activity. Therefore, surgeons generally perform knee replacements on patients over 50. Active young people…
A soccer player dribbles down the field and abruptly cuts right around a defender, only to fall to the ground clutching her knee. She reports a sudden popping sound and her knee “giving out.” She heads over to ORTHOKnox Urgent Care, and the doctors diagnose her injury as an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear. ACL…
You may need a total knee replacement if conservative options, such as injections and physical therapy, have not worked for your knee arthritis, pain, or alignment. You can go to the ORTHOKnox orthopaedic clinics in Knoxville, Tennessee, or Athens, Tennessee to discuss your options for a total knee replacement. At ORTHOKnox, your doctor may recommend…
If you have an inner couch potato telling you to just kick back and watch TV this weekend, fighting against it and getting some exercise can actually increase your life expectancy (and ultimately increase how much TV you can ever watch). Exercise is almost always the best choice if you are looking for something to…
You may be a professional athlete, be an avid basketball fan, or you may have just played basketball in your driveway over Thanksgiving and hope to get out and play some more. In any case, if you break basketball down into its main physical components, you have a series of fast sprints, passes and catches,…
During this football season, we’ve seen a few football players go down with an ACL tear and hear that they are “out for the season.” So what happens between the time we see them go down and return to play next season? Most likely, they have had surgery and are following a rigorous ACL rehabilitation…
As the medical field continues to improve and develop, it is increasingly important for us at ORTHOKNOX to identify trends and differences among patients so we can determine more accurate personalized treatment plans for each individual patient. Due to differences in structural anatomy, hormones, and genetics, some studies have identified some trends in injuries and…
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