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    The document provides post-operative instructions for knee arthroscopy. It outlines instructions for medications, dressing, showering, icing, weight bearing, activities, exercises, and goals. Patients should take prescribed medications to control pain and inflammation. Dressings can be removed after 48 hours but tape strips over incisions should stay on 1-2 weeks. Showering is allowed after 48 hours but immersing in water should be avoided for a week. Icing is important to reduce swelling and pain. Weight bearing and activities are restricted for 24 hours after surgery. Exercises like quadriceps contractions and leg raises should be done regularly. The goals are normal walking at 24 hours and full range of motion within a week.

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    The document provides post-operative instructions for knee arthroscopy. It outlines instructions for medications, dressing, showering, icing, weight bearing, activities, exercises, and goals. Patients should take prescribed medications to control pain and inflammation. Dressings can be removed after 48 hours but tape strips over incisions should stay on 1-2 weeks. Showering is allowed after 48 hours but immersing in water should be avoided for a week. Icing is important to reduce swelling and pain. Weight bearing and activities are restricted for 24 hours after surgery. Exercises like quadriceps contractions and leg raises should be done regularly. The goals are normal walking at 24 hours and full range of motion within a week.

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    Knee Arthroscopy Post Op Instructions

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    The document provides post-operative instructions for knee arthroscopy. It outlines instructions for medications, dressing, showering, icing, weight bearing, activities, exercises, and goals. Patients should take prescribed medications to control pain and inflammation. Dressings can be removed after 48 hours but tape strips over incisions should stay on 1-2 weeks. Showering is allowed after 48 hours but immersing in water should be avoided for a week. Icing is important to reduce swelling and pain. Weight bearing and activities are restricted for 24 hours after surgery. Exercises like quadriceps contractions and leg raises should be done regularly. The goals are normal walking at 24 hours and full range of motion within a week.

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    Knee Arthroscopy Post-Operative Instructions

    Medications
    You will be given two prescriptions- one for pain and the other to control inflammation. The pain
    medication is a codeine derivative and should be taken if necessary. The medication to control
    inflammation should be taken as directed.

    Dressing
    Leave you’re dressing on unless your first post-op doctor or therapy visit is more than 48 hours
    after your surgery. After 48 hours you may remove your dressing. LEAVE THE TAPE STRIPS OVER
    YOUR INCISIONS. These will stay on for 1 ½- 2 weeks and will slowly peel off.

    Showering
    You may shower 48 hours after your surgery and get your incisions wet. Do NOT immerse in a tub
    or pool for 7 – 10 days to avoid excessive scarring and risk of infection.

    Ice Packs
    Keep Ice Packs on at all times exchanging every hour while awake. Icing is very important to
    decrease swelling and pain and improve mobility. After 24 hours, continue to use the cuff 3 – 4
    times a day, 15 – 20 minutes each time to keep swelling to a minimum.

    Weight Bearing
    You should not put weight on your leg for 24 hours after your surgery unless specified by your
    doctor. Use your crutches for the first 24 hours or until your first therapy visit. If your first
    therapy visit is more than 24 hours after your surgery, you may begin progressively putting more
    weight on your leg using your crutches for balance only, progressing to no crutches.

    Activities
    Rest and elevate your leg for the first 24 hours. Do NOT place a pillow under your knee. Elevate
    with a pillow under your calf and ankle. It is important to get your leg as straight as possible as
    soon as possible.

    Exercises
    1) Quadriceps Contractions: 5 – 10 per hour, push knee into bed, tighten thigh muscle
    2) Straight Leg Raises: 5 per hour

    Goals
    Normal ambulation 24 hours after surgery and normal range of motion within one week of
    surgery.

    If you experience severe pain that your pain medication does not relieve, you should let us know.
    If you experience a temperature over 101.5*, redness or swelling in your thigh or calf, please
    contact our office daytime, evenings or weekends at (617) 667-3940.

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