Timing of Rehabilitation After Total Knee Replacement Surgery May Hurt Patients' Ability to Regain and Improve Function

Saturday, November 10, 2012 - 17:31 in Health & Medicine

While more than 900,000 total knee replacement surgeries were performed in the U.S. in 2011 to treat debilitating knee osteoarthritis, the success rate of post-operative functional gains vary widely, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

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