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When preparing for
a joint replacement, you may come to the Nebraska Joint Replacement Center up to
one month before your surgery. At this time you go through the pre-operation
process to make sure all necessary X-Rays, tests, etc. have been done to
properly prepare you for your surgery. The pre-op process can be done as much as
one month, but no less than one week before your joint replacement.
At
the Nebraska Joint Replacement Center, a group approach is taken with these
specific procedures. Your length of stay at the hospital is usually four to five
days starting on Sunday. Sunday afternoon, you and a family member join eight or
nine other joint replacement candidates for an informal lunch and education
session. Here you have the chance to meet with an anesthesiologist, a physical
therapist, the director of the Nebraska Joint Replacement Center and the
director of nursing on three north -- the floor on which joint replacement
patients stay. At this time, you will learn what to expect from a rehabilitation
and nursing standpoint and are free to ask any questions of those present. In
general, you are invited to this lunch to help alleviate anxieties and to put
your mind at ease.
Surgeries at the Nebraska Joint Replacement Center
take place on Mondays and Tuesdays. One day after your surgery, you are allowed
to wear normal street clothes. Wellness is emphasized at the Nebraska Joint
Replacement Center and you urged to be as comfortable as possible. Physical
therapy starts after surgery. The mornings are reserved for individual therapy
in the therapy department. In the afternoons you will join in group
rehabilitation with other joint replacement patients on your home
floor.
Depending on the day of your surgery and your condition, dismissal
is toward the end of the week usually on Thursday or
Friday.
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