The Book
A Physical Therapist's Complete Guide: Deciding, Preparing, and Recovering Week by Week
Most knee-replacement guides are written by surgeons, who hand the recovery off to "your physical therapist" and end the chapter. This one is written by the physical therapist. The surgery rebuilds the joint. The rehab rebuilds you.
Why this book
Facing a knee replacement? Then you have probably already discovered the problem: everyone has advice, and half of it contradicts the other half.
The surgery itself is one day. The recovery is the months that follow: the pain, the swelling, the sleepless nights, and the slow return of strength. That is where this guide lives. It is written by a physiotherapist, drawing on the day-to-day clinical work of walking patients through exactly that stretch, so you get a clear, week-by-week plan for the part you are actually going to spend the most time in.
"The surgery rebuilds the joint. The rehab rebuilds you."
What's inside
You are not a statistic
Along the way you meet three patients who follow the journey with you. They are composites, drawn from hundreds of real patients, so you can see your own recovery in someone else's.
Margaret
Weighing whether the time is finally right, and what life looks like on the other side.
Dan
Counting down to surgery day and getting his body and his home ready for it.
Rosa
Working through the week-by-week recovery and getting back to the things she loves.
Start here
The book gives you the map. The free community gives you people walking it with you, and a physiotherapist answering "is this normal?" in real time. You do not need the book to join, and you do not need to live in any particular place. It is free and open to everyone facing a knee replacement.
Free · Private · Run by a PT
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