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Arthroplasty – Pain Management

August 26, 2021
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As part of our multimodal pain management strategies, we will be injecting a local pain cocktail at the surgery site, which helps a lot with pain control in the first few hours after the surgery. This is something you’ll be feeling in those first few hours that will enhance your ability to get up and walk more quickly and more efficiently. The following day, you may start to feel the effects of this pain medicine starting to wear off. The morning after your surgery, you will start to feel a little bit more discomfort than even the day of the surgery itself. This is because some of the local medications we used inside the surgery itself have started to wear off. In the knees in particular, the adductor canal block or the local block in front of the knee is starting to wean off. You may have more discomfort today than you did even the day of your surgery itself.

As a number of these pain medications are starting to wear off. In the days following your joint replacement surgery, it’s very important to maintain your pain level at a low level and make sure you stay on top of that pain with the pain medications given to you at the time of surgery. If you allow the pain level to get too high, it becomes much more difficult to get that pain level back down. And you’re stuck in a position of being uncomfortable and really limits your ability to function out there with physical therapy and improve your mobility following your joint replacement, which places you at risk for blood clots, pneumonia, those types of things that we want to make sure we avoid. It’s important to keep your mobility up following the surgery.

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