This page provides general health education only and does not replace individual instructions from your doctor or physiotherapist. Follow the plan provided by your treating team.
Guide for Patients and Carers
General guidance on wound care, symptom monitoring, safe activity and staged rehabilitation after partial knee replacement. Your surgeon’s and physiotherapist’s individual instructions always take priority.
General Rehabilitation Principles
- Recovery is progressed by wound healing, swelling, movement, strength and function—not by the calendar alone.
- Take medicines only as prescribed and do not change dressings, braces or weight-bearing restrictions without advice.
- Short, regular periods of safe activity are usually preferable to sudden increases in effort.
- Contact the clinic if symptoms become significantly worse after activity.
Early Post-operative Care
- Keep the wound and dressing clean and dry unless your clinical team advises otherwise.
- Use ice, elevation, a brace, sling, boot or walking aid only as instructed.
- Take prescribed pain relief as directed; do not change the dose yourself.
- Attend arranged wound checks and follow-up appointments.
Activity and Weight-bearing Precautions
- Follow your surgeon’s instructions on weight bearing, joint movement and use of supports.
- Avoid driving, heavy lifting, twisting, impact activity or sport until cleared.
- Do not compare your progress with another patient, even after a similar operation.
- Use stairs and walking aids only in the way taught by your clinical team.
Rehabilitation Stages
Protect and settle symptoms
Focus on wound care, swelling control and safe movement.
- Protect the operated area
- Manage pain and swelling
- Move safely at home
Restore movement and strength
Progress exercises and daily activities according to review findings.
- Improve movement
- Rebuild strength and control
- Increase walking or upper-limb function
Return to function
Prepare for work, exercise or sport using individual functional goals.
- Build endurance
- Practise relevant tasks
- Complete return-to-activity checks
Activities That May Be Performed as Directed
- Short, regular walks or gentle movement as instructed
- Prescribed home exercises
- Safe personal care and light daily activities
- Rest breaks and position changes throughout the day
Avoid Until Cleared by Your Doctor or Physiotherapist
- Heavy lifting or forceful use of the operated area
- Running, jumping, twisting or contact sport
- Driving while movement is restricted or sedating medicine is required
- Soaking the wound before it has healed and your team has confirmed it is safe
Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy
- Control pain and swelling
- Restore an appropriate range of movement
- Rebuild strength and movement control
- Improve walking, balance or upper-limb function
- Prepare safely for work, exercise or sport
何時應暫停運動並聯絡診所？
- 運動後痛楚明顯加劇並持續
- 腫脹突然增加
- 傷口滲液、出血、紅腫熱痛增加
- 患肢麻痺、變紫、變白或變冷
- 關節卡住、失去控制或突然無力
- 小腿明顯腫痛、胸痛或氣促
- 發燒或寒顫
何時可進入下一階段？
以下只屬一般原則，實際是否可進階需由醫生或物理治療師評估。
- 痛楚及腫脹受控，且活動後沒有明顯反覆惡化。
- 傷口情況穩定，沒有發燒、滲液、紅腫熱痛加劇或感染跡象。
- 醫生或物理治療師確認活動幅度、肌力、步姿、平衡或手部功能達到下一階段要求。
- 相關影像、X 光或覆診評估顯示可以逐步增加活動或負重。
- 病人能明白並遵守支架、吊帶、護托、保護靴、助行工具或活動限制。
詳細指引
適合對象
部分膝關節置換術後病人。本頁以「部分膝關節置換術後復康指南」作一般健康教育參考，實際復康安排需按個別手術及醫護團隊指示。
Early Post-operative Care
早期重點包括疼痛及腫脹管理、傷口護理、按需要冰敷或抬高患肢，以及按指示使用護具、石膏、支架、吊帶、保護靴或助行工具。與本手術較相關的事項包括：不可假設一定較全膝置換更快康復、腫脹控制、步行及助行器、膝活動幅度。
Activity and Weight-bearing Precautions
負重、活動幅度、拆線、駕駛、上班、回復運動及使用助行架、拐杖、吊帶、護托或保護靴等安排，必須以主診醫生及物理治療師指示為準。避免過早用力、負重、扭轉或進行高風險活動。
Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy
復康通常由控制腫痛開始，逐步恢復關節活動幅度、肌肉力量、步姿、平衡及日常功能。回復運動或體力工作前，應由醫生或物理治療師評估痛楚、腫脹、肌力、活動幅度及動作控制。
日常生活注意事項
術後家居應保持通道清晰，避免濕滑地面及急速轉身。洗澡、睡眠、上落樓梯、外出及家務安排需按手術位置及活動限制調整；如家中有長者或需要照顧者協助，建議預先安排。
需要聯絡診所的情況
如傷口、痛楚、腫脹、麻痺、護具鬆緊、步行能力或復康進度有明顯變化，或不確定是否屬正常反應，請聯絡診所查詢。若情況嚴重或出現急症警號，請即時求醫。
覆診提醒
請按醫生安排覆診。如需更改覆診時間，請聯絡診所。如有傷口、支架、石膏或 X 光覆查安排，請依時出席，並帶備相關文件、影像及物理治療紀錄。
FAQ
Contact the clinic if pain or swelling is worsening, the wound changes, function suddenly declines, or you are unsure about your restrictions. Seek urgent care for severe warning signs.
This depends on the operation, medicines, movement, strength and the demands of your work or vehicle. Follow your surgeon’s individual advice.
Do not advance loading, range or impact activity solely because pain is lower. Progress should follow the criteria set by your surgeon or physiotherapist.
急症警號及需要聯絡診所的情況
- Increasing redness, heat, swelling, discharge or fever
- Sudden calf swelling, chest pain or shortness of breath
- New numbness, marked weakness or loss of bladder or bowel control
- Severe or rapidly worsening pain, or a new injury
QR code 連結
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https://www.wholenessrevival.com.hk/aftercare/partial-knee-replacement/?lang=en
列印或儲存指引
部分膝關節置換術後復康指南：部分膝關節置換後復康方向可與全膝置換相似，但進度不應假設一定較快。早期仍需重視腫脹控制、步行、膝活動幅度及股四頭肌控制。 簡單自我運動參考包括：踝泵運動、股四頭肌收縮、腳跟滑動、短距離安全步行、坐姿膝關節屈伸練習、坐姿抬膝練習、步行耐力。 本頁只供一般健康教育參考，所有負重、活動幅度、護具使用、拆線、駕駛、上班及回復運動安排，均以主診醫生及物理治療師指示為準。
This page provides general health education only and does not replace diagnosis, treatment or personalised advice from your doctor or physiotherapist.