Joint replacement patients who experience a one-on-one education session with a physical therapist and access to a web-based education reach postoperative physical therapy milestones faster than ...

Pre-Op Physical Status Predicts Surgical Patients’ AKI Risk Increasing ASA scores are associated with an increasing likelihood of post-operative acute kidney injury. AMSTERDAM—Pre-operative American ...

HealthDay News — A 30-minute preoperative physical therapy session focused on breathing exercises is associated with a reduced incidence of postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) among patients ...

Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has become the third most common inpatient surgery in the United States, with 750,000 yearly procedures projected to double in the next decade. (Sloan et al. 2018) There ...

When patients come out of surgery they re only part way to full recovery. Still to come is therapy to regain their pre-operative physical condition. It s certainly true of hand therapy, said Mary ...

Plexāā announced that it launched its Bloom43 wearable preconditioning medical device for breast surgery in the U.S.

PITTSFIELD -- With Massachusetts Gov. Deval L. Patrick set for hip replacement surgery in Boston on Sept. 1, Berkshire Medical Center officials are happy to point out that more than 300 similar ...