Pre-operative and post-operative rehabilitation are designed to help you achieve the best possible results from your surgical procedure. Pre-operative physical therapy focuses on reducing swelling and inflammation, improving flexibility, and increasing strength and endurance of supporting structures around the injured area or joint that is involved in the surgery. Your physical therapist will also educate you about compensatory movement patterns and habits you may have developed as a consequence of the injury and address those prior to surgery, which can help facilitate and speed up recovery. During the early post-operative phase, your physical therapist places emphasis on pain control, range of motion, and activities of daily living. As treatment progresses, increasing emphasis is placed on strength and endurance, biomechanics, functional movement, and safe return to full activities.
