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Patient Guide: Total Knee Replacement Precautions and Helpful Hints

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Dressing

- Do not dress standing up. Sit on a chair or the edge of you bed, if stable;
- The occupational therapist will instruct you in the use of adaptive equipment if necessary. These items might include a reacher, long-handled shoehorn, elastic shoe laces and a sock aid to help you put on your socks;
- When you are getting dressed, first put pant leg, sock or stocking on the surgical leg;
- When you undress, remove clothes from your surgical leg last.

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My father aged 75 years old changed the knee replcement of both legs last 7 days , his leg moment on right hand from foot,knee, hip are good and left hand moment is slow and weight is heavy, please tell us what precautions, exercise diet ,recovery etc in details. Thanks.

October 24, 2014 - 12:20am
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