Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. While joint replacements are extremely common and have a very high success rate it’s still recommended that they be the last resort option. Surgery puts a…
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Post Knee Replacement Surgery Dos/Don’ts
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. Having a knee replacement means getting around is going to be a challenge for a little while. Here are some things to keep in mind before…
Joint Replacement Surgery, What Exactly Is It?
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. If you or someone you know is considering undergoing a total joint replacement you probably have a lot of questions. A total joint replacement is a…
Preparing for Joint Replacement Surgery During the Holidays
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. Whether it’s a scheduling coincidence or a deliberate desire to get things underway before a busy season when you undergo a total joint replacement surgery during…
Knee Replacement Awareness (prepping before surgery & knowing what to expect afterward)
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. Knee replacement is a major surgery and it can be scary even if you’ve had other surgeries in the past. But if you’re at the point…
Using Hot and Cold Therapy After Total Joint Replacement Surgery
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. People have been using heat and cold therapies to ease pain in joints for years. When you’re recovering from joint replacement surgery any relief is welcome,…
Preparing for Prescription Opioids Post Total Joint Replacement
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. Surgery can be stressful especially with the added stress of medication. Most doctors recommend the use of opioids for pain management with total joint replacement surgeries…
Travel Tips for Chronic Pain & Post Replacement Surgery
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. Planning on some trips this summer? Traveling with chronic pain from an illness or following shoulder, elbow, hip or knee replacement can pose some issues, though they’re far…
Knee Replacement Rehab and Recovery
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. Some of the most common questions people have after a knee replacement is how long the recovery will take and what the rehabilitation process will look…
‘Tis the Season for Joint Replacement!
The holidays are right around the corner and before you know it your holiday festivities will be here! So, hopefully, you planned ahead this year… For many people, the holidays can be stressful enough with all the unpredictable weather, gift buying, cooking, traveling to or even arranging for family and guest visiting. Recovering from a…
