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<blockquote data-quote="M77Fan" data-source="post: 2953849" data-attributes="member: 115996"><p>For OP or anyone else looking at a replacement, this is really good advice!!! If you are shopping for a doctor, do some checking. Be educated. Sounds like there are several others of you reading this conversation. PTs get to see all the local handiwork, and they are the ones who have to figure out the rehab challenges for each individual. Of course, PTs will also tell you that motivated patients do best, and those who expect the PTs to do all the work have the poorest overall results. </p><p></p><p>Keep in mind this is not about the 6-8 weeks of healing and rehab, it is about <em>the rest of your life</em>.</p><p></p><p>With joint replacements, healing is on the schedule of repairing a broken bone (6-8 weeks), which is essentially what has happened. They remove bone to replace it with titanium. The injured bone has to heal, as does all that soft tissue around the joint. Despite what we all want, recovery and healing are not instantaneous.</p><p></p><p>One other thing to keep in mind is that while joint replacements replace bone ends where cartilage wore off, making the joint arthritic, there is a lot more to a joint. If you have screwed up ligaments and tendons or have other soft tissue damage, that replacement generally will not change those old injuries. So it may still have some pain, even fully healed.</p><p></p><p>The doctor can do his or her best work on you, but the final product is also the patient's responsibility.</p><p></p><p>As a generic statement, even though doctors may look at my age as "old", I seek out doctors involved in sports medicine because I find they better understand the mindset of active people who just want to get back to their active lifestyle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="M77Fan, post: 2953849, member: 115996"] For OP or anyone else looking at a replacement, this is really good advice!!! If you are shopping for a doctor, do some checking. Be educated. Sounds like there are several others of you reading this conversation. PTs get to see all the local handiwork, and they are the ones who have to figure out the rehab challenges for each individual. Of course, PTs will also tell you that motivated patients do best, and those who expect the PTs to do all the work have the poorest overall results. Keep in mind this is not about the 6-8 weeks of healing and rehab, it is about [I]the rest of your life[/I]. With joint replacements, healing is on the schedule of repairing a broken bone (6-8 weeks), which is essentially what has happened. They remove bone to replace it with titanium. The injured bone has to heal, as does all that soft tissue around the joint. Despite what we all want, recovery and healing are not instantaneous. One other thing to keep in mind is that while joint replacements replace bone ends where cartilage wore off, making the joint arthritic, there is a lot more to a joint. If you have screwed up ligaments and tendons or have other soft tissue damage, that replacement generally will not change those old injuries. So it may still have some pain, even fully healed. The doctor can do his or her best work on you, but the final product is also the patient's responsibility. As a generic statement, even though doctors may look at my age as "old", I seek out doctors involved in sports medicine because I find they better understand the mindset of active people who just want to get back to their active lifestyle. [/QUOTE]
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