Painless Knee Surgery allows patient to walk on the Same Day

Total knee Replacement (TKR)surgery has traditionally been associated with moderate to severe postoperative pain.  Postoperative pain has been identified as the single most important complaint among those undergoing totalknee replacements deterring their determination to undergo surgery. Further to this postoperative recovery is delayed and early mobility of the patient is difficult to achieve

Today Wockhardt Hospital has been evolving new ways to reduce pain after surgery through an effective comprehensive multimodal pain control protocol for both, primary and revision knee replacement surgery.

Dr Mudit Khanna experienced orthopaedic surgeon Wockhardt Hospital at Mumbai Central, has adopted this new clinical protocol enabling the surgical team to achieve an outstanding pain control allowing patients to have a painless or near painless experience, following knee replacement surgery without the use of any parenteral (injectable) narcotics.

The entire procedure of knee replacement with multimodal pain control is planned using the following techniques or practices:

Ø  Minimally invasive surgery with the use of muscle sparing approach

Ø  No use of tourniquet

Ø  Careful and meticulous tissue handling with minimal use of cautery

Ø  Better alignment of surgical components

Ø  Periarticular infiltration of local anaesthetic medication

Ø  Multimodal analgesia

Ø  Peripheral nerve blocks (adductor canal block)

Dr Mudit Khanna shares “Most of the patients utilising the ‘Painless TKR’ protocols are up and active on the very day of surgery (mobilised on day 0).They start walking on the floor with the aid of a physical therapist on the same day or the next and are usually ready for discharge by the third day”. 

Hence, the patients who go for painless procedure are able to pursue an aggressive and faster rehabilitation programme allowing them to return to their work and busy family lives and responsibilities much faster. 

To conclude, painless or near painless TKR’ greatly enhances the chances of a patient suffering from osteoarthritis resulting in a much superior quality of life.

To know more about the new techniques in treatment of osteoarthritis and knee replacement surgery please visit our bone and joint department at Wockhardt Hospital centres.