Summary
Physiotherapy after knee surgery depends on the operation and the doctor’s instructions. Which movements are allowed, how much load the patient is allowed to put on the knee. Furthermore, the physiotherapeutic treatment is based on the wound healing phases that the knee joint undergoes after an operation.
The therapy initially focuses on pain relief and improvement of healing, then on improving mobility, strengthening, and finally on coordination training with an increase/restoration of the everyday resilience of the knee joint. Light exercises such as certain mobilizing techniques of the FBL are useful for the beginning of physiotherapy. At the end of rehabilitation, the use of equipment and aids is applied in addition to functional training by means of knee bends and lunges.
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