Physiotherapy rehabilitation in severe damaged osteoarthritis knee following surgically treated bilateral total knee replacement – A case study

Abstract

This 62-year-old female patient case study describes physiotherapy rehabilitation exercises of stage 4 osteoarthritis in the post-operative phase. The patient has pain, symptoms, decreased adl activities and decreased quality of life (study measures completely done by Koos scale). Following surgical managed total knee replacement patient gets better with her symptomatically level and this study tells the importance of replacing knee joint in time as suggested by an orthopaedic surgeon, else there would be a marked functional outcome limitation of the patient. It also emphasis on the importance of physiotherapy and maintaining the operative knee joint in long term care.