Rehabilitation after surgery, fracture and injury

Recovery after a fracture, knee replacement recovery, hip replacement recovery, ACL surgery recovery, physiotherapy after surgery, sports injury, rehabilitation after a road accident.

The most common story here is someone who did the exercises for two weeks, felt better, stopped, and arrived four months later with a knee that will not bend. That is treatable, and it is slower than it needed to be.

Exercise therapy is the core, progressed in stages against what the surgeon has allowed. Alongside it: manual therapy for stiffness once it is safe, swelling management, walking retraining, and a graded return to work or sport.

Ultrasound, electrotherapy, dry needling and hijama are not used over fresh wounds, over numb skin, or where metalwork makes them unsuitable. Which of them you get, if any, is decided at the assessment.

A wound becomes hot, red, swollen or starts leaking, or you develop a fever. A calf becomes hot, swollen and painful, with or without breathlessness, which can be a clot. You get sudden chest pain or shortness of breath. A limb goes pale, cold or numb. After a head injury, you start vomiting, the headache worsens, or you become drowsy.