Knee Replacement Rehabilitation
Personalized physical therapy to help you restore motion, rebuild strength, and return to the daily activities that matter to you.
Serving Queen Creek and the San Tan area with one-on-one, hands-on care.
Your Recovery Starts with a Plan
Total knee replacement, also called total knee arthroplasty, may be recommended when joint damage and persistent moderate-to-severe pain do not improve adequately with nonsurgical treatment and limited knee motion affects quality of life. While most patients experience a significant reduction in pain after surgery, weakness, limited range of motion, and reduced function are common during recovery.
At San Tan Physical Therapy, your care is built around a thorough biomechanical evaluation, education, and a customized treatment plan. We help you work toward improved mobility, function, and confidence at every stage of recovery.
Support Before and After Surgery
Physical therapy can be an important part of the knee replacement journey—not only after surgery, but before it too.
Before Knee Replacement: Prehab
Physical therapy is a successful treatment for arthritis and may help delay or avoid knee replacement for some people. When surgery is planned, a therapist-directed prehab program can improve strength and help speed the post-surgical recovery process.
- Build strength before surgery
- Prepare for the recovery process
- Learn exercises and movement strategies
After Knee Replacement: Rehabilitation
Post-surgical physical therapy helps address the muscle weakness, loss of range of motion, and limited function that commonly follow a knee replacement. Your program progresses at your pace to improve strength, mobility, balance, walking skills, and endurance.
- Recover knee motion and strength
- Improve balance and walking skills
- Return to daily activities with greater confidence
What Your Physical Therapy May Include
Your treatment is customized to your needs, surgical status, and goals. Components of care may include the following.
Restore Motion
Gentle hands-on techniques, joint mobilization, targeted stretching, and active or passive range-of-motion work can help decrease stiffness and improve knee mobility.
Rebuild Strength
Progressive strength training, isometric exercise, and muscular re-education are used to improve muscle strength and power for standing, stairs, and daily activity.
Improve Walking & Balance
Gait training, balance work, and functional retraining help improve safety, weight-bearing tolerance, proprioception, and confidence as you move.
Manage Symptoms
Appropriate pain-relieving modalities, including ice, heat, or electrical stimulation, may be incorporated to support comfort and symptom self-care.
Education for Independence
We provide extensive patient education and a home or health club program so you can continue progressing between visits and beyond formal therapy.
Care Built Around You
Everyone is different. Your care may take one or two visits or extend over several weeks or months, based on your recovery, goals, and individual needs.
A Gradual, Goal-Focused Recovery
Recovery after total knee replacement takes patience. Give yourself time: the practice's medical library notes that patients should allow at least three months to recover.
1. Pain Relief
Focus on reducing pain, swelling, and inflammation while protecting the knee and learning symptom-management strategies.
2. Introduce Movement
Progress pain-free range of motion and appropriate movement to begin restoring mobility.
3. Strengthen & Function
Build strength, balance, endurance, and functional movement for walking, stairs, and the activities important to you.
Move Forward with Personalized Care
San Tan Physical Therapy has served the Queen Creek and San Tan areas since 2006. Let our licensed clinical experts help you work toward better strength, mobility, and confidence after knee replacement.
No doctor referral is necessary. Immediate appointments may be available.