It’s common to hear from health care professionals that the recovery process from surgery is just as important as the procedure itself.

This is especially true of any type of knee surgery. No matter how minimally invasive the operation is, there is still significant healing that needs to occur.

Additionally, patients will typically need to retrain themselves to function properly.

Particularly if an injury has altered their posture and movement for a long period of time. 

To help you understand how important physical therapy after knee surgery is, we’ve prepared the following helpful overview.

We invite you to contact us if you have any questions or want to learn more as you read this over. 

Why you shouldn’t skip physical therapy after knee surgery

The goal of physical therapy as post-surgical rehabilitation is to promote the healing process and help patients regain functioning.

This is accomplished with strengthening exercises, posture and movement training, manual therapies to help mobilize soft tissue and other targeted techniques. 

Here are some of the negative consequences that can potentially occur in patients recovering from knee surgery who don’t continue on with physical therapy: 

Supporting muscles and soft tissue can begin to atrophy due to nonuse and swelling.

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