physcial therapy for knee surgery?

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Stretching
Stretching is vital to maintain good range of motion around a joint. If a patient has stiff joints, normal activities such as opening a jar or climbing stairs can be severely affected. By proper stretching, these functions can be preserved. After an injury or surgery, scar tissue forms, and soft-tissue contracts; this is when stretching is most important.

Strengthening
Strengthening exercises are performed to help the patient improve the function of their muscles. The goal is to improve strength, increase endurance, and maintain or improve range of motion. Common types of strength training include:

Closed Chain
The closed chain exercises are performed with the foot locked in position on the ground--for example a leg squat. These exercises a performed to help balance the muscle strength. By performing closed chain exercises, the weak muscle (e.g. the quadriceps) and its antagonist (e.g. the hamstrings), will both be exercised and balanced. Open chain exercises, such as a leg extension, do not balance the muscles this way.

Proprioceptive
Proprioception is the sense of knowing where a body part is in space. This can be a difficult concept to grasp until you lose it, because so much proprioception occurs without out conscious thought. When you lose proprioception of, for example, an ankle joint after a sprain, patients often complain of an unstable sensation of the joint. Proprioception training reteaches your body to control the position of an injured joint.

Ice and Heat Therapy
Ice and heat are useful to warm up and cool off muscles. In addition, these modalities can stimulate blood flow and decrease swelling. These can be important aspects of the therapeutic process.

Ultrasound
Ultrasound uses high frequency sound waves (not within the range we can hear) to stimulate the deep tissues within the body. By passing an ultrasound probe over the body, deep tissues are stimulated by the vibration of the sound wave. This leads to warming and increased blood flow to these tissues.

Electrical Stimulation
Electrical stimulation is a therapy that is not well understood. By passing an electrical current to an affected area, nerve conduction within the region is altered, which can in turn alter muscle contractility. Patients often experience diminished pain after this type of treatment.

Aquatic Therapy
Aquatic therapy is a terrific way to regain mobility and maintain strength by doing exercises in a swimming pool. This has become very popular in recent years because many patients who have difficulty exercising can often do very well in the water. The added buoyancy helps support the body and the water provides gentle resistance to increase strength and endurance.

Biofeedback
Biofeedback is a useful tool for strengthening a weakened muscle or muscle group.Essentially the machine allow you to monitor how well a particular muscle is functioning, so you can better understand how to help strengthen the affected muscles.

There is nothing better or more healing ...

WATER THERAPY

Get in and float around on a device and let the waters movement heal thyself

You are right. If you have had a lateral release, you need physical therapy!

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