Knee replacement rehabilitation is important for the patient, as it ensures complete recovery of the patient. Performing selected sets of exercises after total knee replacement surgery make the patients more flexible, increasing their muscle strength with mobility. With a physiotherapist providing guidance for an exercise program, recovery will be faster ensuring mobility. Before you start with your knee exercises, talk to your physiotherapist about the problems you are facing. Strengthening exercises forms the base of a rehabilitation program, which is meant to strengthen lower limbs and averting muscle mass loss. This helps patients to regain strength required for toileting, walking and for other activities.
The quad exercise set is often used. It starts with quadriceps contraction, while allowing slow knee movement and then it slowly helps in muscle extension. For this exercise, back of knee is pushed into the bed and contraction is hold for 10-12 seconds. Another exercise used is straight leg raises. It increases flexibility in quadriceps and hip muscles. For this, raise your one leg straight with the other one bent, lift it towards the other knee, and slowly come down. Three sets of 10 each are performed for both exercises respectively. For regaining limb mobility, heel slides are performed, for which you require to slide the heel of the engaged leg till you experience a stretch through knee. Repeat this movement 10 times. In addition, knee extension exercises are also performed. Calve stretch and hamstring stretches ensure that there is flexibility.
The quad exercise set is often used. It starts with quadriceps contraction, while allowing slow knee movement and then it slowly helps in muscle extension. For this exercise, back of knee is pushed into the bed and contraction is hold for 10-12 seconds. Another exercise used is straight leg raises. It increases flexibility in quadriceps and hip muscles. For this, raise your one leg straight with the other one bent, lift it towards the other knee, and slowly come down. Three sets of 10 each are performed for both exercises respectively. For regaining limb mobility, heel slides are performed, for which you require to slide the heel of the engaged leg till you experience a stretch through knee. Repeat this movement 10 times. In addition, knee extension exercises are also performed. Calve stretch and hamstring stretches ensure that there is flexibility.
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