Rehabilitation After Joint Replacement: The First Steps Toward an Active Life.

A patient can leave the operating room with a new hip or knee and still feel strangely unprepared for the first ordinary movement. The joint has been replaced. The pain that once made every step difficult may already be different. And yet standing up from a chair, walking to the bathroom, or turning around without […]

After a Meniscus Tear: Why Doing Less Is Sometimes Harder Than Doing More.

People often imagine rehabilitation beginning with movement. I don’t. I think it begins a little earlier. With the moment a person realizes that the knee has stopped being something they never had to think about. Before the injury, it simply existed. You stood up without planning how. You turned around without calculating the angle. You […]