{"id":9471,"date":"2022-10-03T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/?p=9471"},"modified":"2024-06-14T13:22:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T19:22:09","slug":"national-physical-therapy-month-the-future-of-hip-and-knee-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/general\/national-physical-therapy-month-the-future-of-hip-and-knee-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"National Physical Therapy Month: The Future of Hip and Knee Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Written By: Jason D. Handschumacher, DPT<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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\"\"<\/a>We are outnumbered. By 2025 there will be 650,000 Total Hip Replacements and 1.2 million Total Knee Replacements annually in the United States. Cost controls, patient volumes, and limited therapists: patient ratios require efficiency and planning. Just this week I had the first session with a man 2 weeks post total knee replacement who stated, \u201cMy Medicare Advantage plan will cover 6 visits so let\u2019s make the best of them.\u201d Fast-tracking\u201d, outpatient surgery options, anesthesia advances, minimally invasive procedures, and pre-operative planning are maximizing patient activity after surgery. We can\u2019t match those advances with \u201cthis is what I always did for total joints\u2026.\u201d Patients have raised their expectations of what they can do after surgery – we should too. Surgery puts in new hardware – you are the software engineer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Enhanced recovery programs require a multidisciplinary team of dedicated professionals, principally involving preoperative education, multimodal pain control, and accelerated rehabilitation; this will be boosted if combined with minimally invasive surgery. The current economic climate and restricted healthcare budget further necessitate brief hospitalization while minimizing costs. These NON-OPERATIVE INTERVENTIONS are the way forward to achieve such requirements. (Ibrahim, 2013)<\/p>\n

Be \u201cBrilliant at the Basics\u201d. Total Joint Rehabilitation may not be flashy and make you a Social Media icon but it is the bread and butter we need to be best at. Set yourself apart and be the therapist every patient tells their friends to see – because they will tell them something about you – make it great!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Pre-operative Planning and Exercise<\/strong><\/p>\n