This area of the website goes into much more detail about knee operations. We recommend that first you look at the knee timeline, this will give you an overview of the whole process from the onset of pain through to follow-up where an operation takes place.
Then come back here and have a look at what to do before an operation, what the operation itself involves and the possible complications of the surgery:
Knee replacement timeline
An overview of the whole knee replacement procedure, from the onset of pain to follow-up after the operation.
Things to do before a knee replacement
Advice from our medical panel on the things to be thinking about and doing before a knee operation to make life as smooth as possible afterwards.
Knee replacment surgery
A more detailed look at what is involved in the most common knee replacment operations.
Possible complications from knee replacement surgery
A look at what can go wrong with knee replacment operations.
Do’s and don’ts following a knee replacement
Advice from our medical panel on what you should and should not be doing following knee replacment surgery.
