Pre and Post Operation Treatment
We love supporting you on your journey to get stronger. Osteopathic treatment combined with exercise advice can help maintain mobility and improve muscle strength both before and after surgery or joint replacement, leading to better surgical outcomes.
Getting your body ready before surgery and supporting recovery afterwards can make a significant difference to your healing and long-term function.
Our osteopaths understand the challenges of surgical recovery and provide gentle, effective treatment to help you through each stage of the process.
Common Pre and Post Operations:
- Hip replacements
- Knee replacements
- Knee cartilage or ligament repairs
- Rotator cuff repairs
- Ankle fusions
- Toe fusions
- Morton’s neuroma operations
- Fracture recovery
- Other orthopaedic procedures
What to expect before and after surgery
Before surgery, you might have pain, stiffness, and reduced movement. After surgery, you’ll likely experience swelling, weakness, and need to rebuild strength and movement gradually. Recovery timelines vary depending on the procedure and your individual healing.
How We Treat Pre and Post Operation Pain
After a thorough assessment of your movement, we provide gentle hands-on treatment to stimulate blood flow to muscles around the joint and reduce muscle tension. This helps prepare your body for surgery or supports healing afterwards.
We work with you to create a home-based exercise plan appropriate for your ability level before surgery or stage of recovery. Our goal is strengthening muscles around the affected joint and improving any compensatory movement patterns you’ve developed.
Our osteopathic approach ensures you’re as strong as possible before surgery and recover as effectively as possible afterwards. We also host group exercise classes that we might encourage you to join to maintain the benefits of your treatment.
I first saw Duncan, two years ago, when I had a very painful shoulder and had to work at an event where I would be using my arms and shoulders all the time. Duncan treated me and managed to get me through the event which was nothing short of a miracle. Since then both my father and my brother-in-law have also become patients of Duncan and found his services to be exceptional. Duncan is both friendly and entirely professional and I would be happy to recommend his services to anyone.
I had two sessions with Duncan which were incredibly beneficial and helped to ease my lower back pain. I found Duncan to be professional and informative and you can tell he really cares about what he practices. I highly recommend his practice for anybody who’s experiencing pain!
I was suffering with a combination of shoulder, back and knee issues which Duncan got to grips with, alleviating the discomfort and leaving me feeling reinvigorated and refreshed. I’d definitely recommend giving him a go. I found the treatment more effective than some acupuncture and physiotherapy i’d had in the past.
