Guide to Total Knee Replacement Surgery
Your Journey Is About to Begin
Now that you have been diagnosed as requiring a knee replacement, your health care providers are going to do all they can to make the surgery a success so that you can return pain-free to the activities you enjoy.
Your success, however, also depends on you. How well you prepare for surgery and the efforts you make after surgery will be significant factors in how quickly and to what degree you resume your normal life.
This is truly a team effort. It involves surgeons, nurses, therapists, educators – and you. These specialists are your health care providers.
Your provider team is assembled and managed by a Case Manager who will ensure you receive care and guidance tailored to your individual needs and circumstances – from surgery through to rehabilitation and, if necessary, lifestyle change. Your Case Manager will also ensure you know what you must do to prepare for and recover successfully from your surgery, and will monitor your progress and help address your concerns and questions.
Your health is the most important asset you have. It is so important that your responsibilities and those of your care providers will be set out in a knee replacement contract.
Your journey through an improved and more efficient and effective public health care system for knee surgery is about to begin. The guidelines, tips and advice you read in the pages that follow are critical parts of the path ahead. Let’s work together to make your journey successful and satisfying.
