With the development of new materials and processes, living with chronic pain and dysfunction in extremities due to arthritis and other debilitating joint conditions has become unnecessary. There are techniques and products that make it possible to remove painful and unusable joints and replace them with new, artificial joints. Two successful approaches to treat lower extremities are now commonplace: total hip replacement and total knee replacement. This SourceBook is divided into two separate sections for each type of care. Choose from 13 learning objectives covering:
- Need for hip replacement
- Readiness for hip replacement
- Complications from and interventions for hip replacement
- Exercises for hip replacement clients
- Assistive devices
- Safe transferring guidelines
- Need for knee replacement
- Conditions in which knee replacement is not recommended
- Complications from and interventions for knee replacement
- Exercises for knee replacement clients
- Safe transferring guidelines
