Post-Surgical Treatment

Treatment after surgery

Physical therapy after surgery is extremely important for ensuring a full recovery. In addition to many other benefits, post-surgical rehabilitation can also help you regain full range of motion in the affected area. Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy specializes in post-surgical physical therapy for total joint replacements and partial tears of muscles and ligaments. In addition, surgeries related to hips, knees, arms, hands, shoulders, and feet/ankles often require physical therapy for optimal recovery.

Post-surgical physical therapy doesn’t just help ensure proper recovery, it also helps patients get moving again after surgery. Many times, surgery can make you feel debilitated and leads to long stretches at home where you live a mostly sedentary lifestyle. Physical therapy after surgery helps to get you out of the house, back into the world and being social again.

Just a few of our customized post-surgical physical therapy treatments include:

  • UCL repairs (Tommy John Surgery)
  • Elbow reconstructive surgeries
  • Cervical and lumbar laminectomy and fusion
  • Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) surgery
  • Knee-reconstruction surgeries
  • Meniscus repairs
  • Carpal tunnel release
  • Stress fractures
  • Ankle ligament repairs
  • Ankle fractures
  • Ankle fusion
  • Labrum repairs
  • Wrist fractures
  • Forearm fractures
  • Hand tendon repairs
  • Rotator cuff repair and other shoulder related surgeries

Did you know?

Research has shown that attending as little as one pre-operative physical therapy session can help reduce the amount of post-operative care and lead to faster and more efficient recoveries.

Learn more about “pre-hab” and our total joint replacement program here.

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