A healthy diet plays an integral role in maintaining good health. It also helps in the healing phase of your post-operative recovery. 

On the first day after surgery, you should eat a light healthy breakfast. The gut can sometimes “go to sleep” following the anaesthetic and you will feel sick and nauseous after a heavy breakfast. You can start eating larger meals over the next few days once things start to return to normal.

Constipation often happens following surgery due to the anaesthetic, surgery and pain medications. It is important to take measures to restore your normal bowel habit.  You will be prescribed Movicol by Mr Dillon to take twice daily which will also help to restore your normal bowel habit as soon as possible following your surgery.

You should eat a diet high in fibre including; Fruit and vegetables (leave the skin on if possible), cereals such as Weetbix or muesli, dried fruit and nuts, wholegrain bread, brown rice and prune juice.

A healthy diet plays an integral role in maintaining good health. It also helps in the healing phase of your post-operative recovery. 

On the first day after surgery, you should eat a light healthy breakfast. The gut can sometimes “go to sleep” following the anaesthetic and you will feel sick and nauseous after a heavy breakfast. You can start eating larger meals over the next few days once things start to return to normal.

Constipation often happens following surgery due to the anaesthetic, surgery and pain medications. It is important to take measures to restore your normal bowel habit.  You will be prescribed Movicol by Mr Dillon to take twice daily which will also help to restore your normal bowel habit as soon as possible following your surgery.

You should eat a diet high in fibre including; Fruit and vegetables (leave the skin on if possible), cereals such as Weetbix or muesli, dried fruit and nuts, wholegrain bread, brown rice and prune juice.

Sleep plays a vital role in your post-operative recovery. Sleep disturbance and poor sleep quality can occur following joint replacement surgery. It is very important that you maintain sleep hygiene and put in place a number of measures to minimise your sleep disturbance.

Mr Dillon will not prescribe sleeping tablets as they have been associated with confusion and falls in the post-operative period.

It can be very difficult to sleep on the night of surgery. This is somewhat unavoidable but it is very important to implement the above measures to help to improve your sleep pattern as quickly as possible. 

Swelling is a normal and expected occurrence after knee replacement surgery and can last for a number of weeks and months following surgery. It can be associated with discomfort and pain. You may sometimes see bruising in the leg. 

Reduction of swelling in both the knee and lower leg plays an important part in optimizing your recovery.

The following are some of the steps taken to help manage your post-operative swelling.

1.  Following surgery, your leg with be wrapped in a tight bandage from the foot to the thigh. You will also have a pillow under your knee for most of the first 24 hours to help reduce the swelling in your knee.
2. Once the bandage is removed, you will be fitted with a pair of Venosan stockings and a tubi-grip stocking over the knee. 
3. Regular icing and elevation. 
4. Watch your step count. It is imperative that you keep moving.
5. Avoid sitting for prolonged periods