Many components of a surgeon’s total knee arthroplasty (TKA) treatment regimen affect the rate of recovery, such as patient selection, preoperative education, surgical technique, pain management, and postoperative rehabilitation. Therefore, accurate counseling requires that the surgeon quantifies patient expectations and early recovery of the treatment regimen with a method that minimizes interviewer bias.

At 4 to 5 weeks postoperatively, 80% of patients walked without a cane, 54% drove a car, 88% thought the treated knee was functioning better than before surgery, 93.5% thought the treated knee was normal or nearly normal, and 98% thought the alignment of their limb was “just right.”

Read the article Quantifying Patient Expectations and Early Recovery After Total Knee Arthroplasty from the Orthosupersite.com site.