Knee replacement advice please. Thank you in advance

I don't have private insurance but I am resident in Spain. Just really wanted some advise  and information from anyone who may have had it done. I understand that I may need to have this done privately.  As much I formation regarding the whole experience and cost of course. Thank you, if you can be of any help. I live in England I am asking and speaking on behalf of my Father who lives in Spain x

Thank you x

I'm entitled to public healthcare and had a new knee in 2015. Can't fault the treatment. Op Thursday and sent home Monday with prescription for a couple of pills and 20 syringes to be used daily to counter DVT. I was also given a month's physiotherapy, later extended to two months, plus three X-rays and consultations with the surgeon.

Two friends had the op privately. Op done, send home, nothing else.

If you do have the op privately, and aren't given any follow-up treatment or advice, then I suggest you rigorously follow an exercise regime, to build up the strength in the leg and more importantly to steadily improve the amount you can bend the leg. Another friend had the op in the same hospital as myself and didn't do the exercises. He ended up being unable to bend his leg nearly as much as I could.

If you want to send me a PM with your email, I'll send you the exercise regimes I put together. Doing the exercises is boring, but it's well worth persevering.

 That  was very helpful!  Thank you so much Jim, very informative and greatly appreciated. Kind regards Ann

I was 54 and I’ve had this procedure under the national health in November 2018.  I was lucky enough to be referred back to the surgeon who had operated on my knee a few years before but was now in the private sector. He was still seeing his previous NH patients. It was very successful but I had to work very hard on my recovery and rented a mechanical ice machine for £250 for the month. I used the manual ones after which were useless. I have heard some terrible stories of bad knee replacements also so you need to do a lot of research on your surgeon. I would work extremely hard on strengthening the knee before operating which is what I also did. Hard work, exercising (I swam lots) and lots of physiotherapy are essential. I hope this helps and be sure to contact me if I can help, further.

Thank you so much  for your advice. Much appreicated. X