Joint prosthesis allows you to get rid of pain and live a more active, fuller life.
When you and your doctor decide that you need a joint replacement surgery, you need to prepare for this procedure physically and emotionally.
How Can I Prepare
Getting the Helper Ready: You will need help from someone else to see to your needs for a few weeks after the surgery. If you live alone, you should have a helper come to your home for 2-3 weeks.
Preparing Your Home: Rearrange your furniture. You may have to make temporary changes to your room. You should take these into consideration. Remove tables and carpets that could cause you to fall or slip. Move electrical cords to a safe location. Don't let it cause you to trip and fall. Don't forget to prepare your bathroom! Keep the materials in order so that you can reach them at any time. And in your home layout, the items you use in daily life should not be placed on the floor or near the ceiling.
What Will Make My Home Safer?
-Raised toilet seat
-Walker
-Non-slip type shower chair
-Collected carpets, rugs and cables on the floor
Keep Calm!
Choose a place in your home as a recovery room. Because you will spend most of your time in this room. Get a chair where you will spend most of your time, one that is comfortable, high, non-slip, and has arms if possible. And the tools you will need daily, such as phone, TV remote, water, medicine, should be nearby.
How Can I Prepare Myself Physically?
Being physically ready for the surgery will speed up your recovery time and makes it easier. If you smoke, reduce or quit. Smoking delays wound healing and recovery. It is also harmful for anesthesia during surgery.
Proper Nutrition
Stay away from hard-to-digest and ready-made foods before surgery. Avoid eating ready-made foods. You can consume light home-cooked meals.
Exercise
If you are going to have knee or hip replacement surgery, you need to strengthen your arms and upper body so that you can walk more easily with a walker or crutches.
-Know that you will be prepared for the surgery with pre-operative blood tests.
-Know how many days you will stay in the hospital after the surgery.
-How much pain you will have and Learn from your doctor how to relieve these pains.
-Know when you will return to normal life in your daily life.
Be sure to learn the exercises to be done after the surgery from your doctor before the surgery. Because learning beforehand will make it easier for you to do it after the surgery.
What Should You Expect from the Surgery?
Do not hesitate to ask questions about anything you do not understand, you can ask your doctor anything. . The more knowledge you have, the better you will adapt to the changes in your life due to the prosthesis in your joint.
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