Post-Op Rehabilitation

The type of treatments received in this service depend on the type of surgery, area of the body, time since the surgery and your usual level of function. The most common surgeries we treat include:

• Knee surgery:
  Arthroscopy (clean-up operation), partial meniscectomy, ACL reconstruction and total knee replacements.
  
  
• Hip Surgeries:
  Arthroscopy (clean-up procedure), hip resurfacing operations (called the Birmingham hip) or a total hip replacements.

• Spinal surgery:
  The three main procedures are discectomy (in which a proportion of the damaged disc is removed ), foraminoplasty (a procedure for older spines where degenerative change has produced Osteophytes narrowing the space for nerve roots or spinal cord) or spinal fusion (where metalwork is inserted to stabilize the spine).

• Shoulder surgery:
  The most frequent procedure is an acromioplasty (in which the under surface of the collar bone is shaved to increase the space for thickened rotator cuff tendons), rotator cuff repairs (where they torn muscles of the rotator cuff are re-attached and shoulder reconstructions (which are required when the shoulder has been repeatedly dislocated).