Best care after total knee replacement, with Dr Jeremy Graber
Dr Jeremy Graber joins us to help answer the question: how often should patients with total knee arthroplasty come to rehabilitation? To answer this and more, we dive into the 2023 JOSPT article, “Expert Consensus for
the Use of Outpatient Rehabilitation Visits After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Delphi Study.”
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Dr Graber and his colleagues led a expert consensus process to establish recommendations for how often and for how long you might consider scheduing rehabilitation visits. The group also discussed
discharge planning, how to implement telerehabilitation, and monitoring the patient's progress to guide clinical decisions
Check out the JOSPT article: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2023.11840
For more on predicting outcomes after total knee replacement: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.23.23297404v1 (preprint)
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