Study: Activity lower than patients hoped after knee replacement

Activity lower than patients hoped after knee replacement (Reuters)
After recovering from knee replacement surgery, patients' physical activity levels with their new joint were significantly lower than what they expected going in, in a new survey.
"My take is that total knee replacement is primarily for pain relief, it's not a lifestyle intervention," said Ewa Roos, an osteoarthritis researcher from the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, who wasn't involved in the study.
After surgery, "you need to change your lifestyle, you need an exercise intervention to improve your recreational fun...