Post-Surgical & Prosthetic Care
Specialized rehabilitation following surgery or amputation to optimize recovery and function.
About Post-Surgical & Prosthetic Care
Our post-surgical and prosthetic care services provide comprehensive rehabilitation for patients recovering from surgical procedures or adapting to life with prosthetic limbs.
We follow evidence-based protocols to guide patients through each phase of recovery while addressing pain, mobility limitations, and functional challenges.
Our goal is to help you regain independence, restore confidence, and return to your daily activities with improved function and quality of life.
Post-surgical rehabilitation at Modern Physio is protocol-based recovery care after operations such as knee and hip replacement, ligament reconstruction (including ACL), spinal surgery, fracture fixation, and amputation. Programmes are led by Dr. Surabhi Bansal (BPT, MPT Ortho), with 14+ years of experience, and are built around one principle: your operating surgeon’s protocol is the rulebook.
If you are searching for a "doctor for physiotherapy after surgery" in Jaipur, here is how the roles fit together. Your surgeon repairs the joint, ligament, or spine and defines the boundaries of recovery — how much weight you may put through the leg, how far the knee may bend in week two, when the brace comes off. The physiotherapist works inside those boundaries every day: restoring movement, rebuilding strength, and retraining walking. We take your discharge summary and operative notes, follow the surgeon’s protocol where one is given, and contact the surgeon’s team directly whenever anything is unclear. The clinic is near Shalby Hospital in Vaishali Nagar, and coordinating with operating surgeons across Jaipur is routine work for us.
The surgery itself is roughly half the outcome. A well-replaced knee that is never pushed past 90 degrees of bending, or a reconstructed ACL that never regains thigh strength, does not feel like a successful operation to the person living with it. Structured rehabilitation is what converts a technically good surgery into a knee you can climb stairs on, a hip you can sit cross-legged near, and a back you can trust.
Who This Helps
People after total or partial knee replacement and hip replacement — from the first post-operative week through to confident stairs and walking without support.
Athletes and active people after ligament or tendon surgery: ACL reconstruction, meniscus repair, rotator cuff repair, Achilles repair — through graded, criteria-based return to sport.
People after spinal surgery (discectomy, laminectomy, fusion) who need safe movement re-education, core strengthening, and a staged return to daily activity.
People after fracture fixation whose joint has stiffened and muscles have wasted during immobilisation.
People with a lower-limb amputation who need residual limb care, shrinkage bandaging, and prosthetic gait training.
Anyone whose surgery was months ago but who still has stiffness, weakness, a limp, or a painful, sensitive scar — late rehabilitation is still worthwhile.
What a Session Looks Like
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Booking: call or WhatsApp, ideally before or immediately after discharge. Bring your discharge summary, operative notes, and the surgeon’s rehab protocol if one was given — that paperwork drives the whole plan. Home visits are available in the early weeks when travel is impractical.
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Baseline assessment: wound and swelling check, joint range measured in degrees, muscle strength grading, and how you transfer, stand, and walk with your current support. These numbers become the baseline every review is measured against.
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Protocol mapping: we match your surgery date to the protocol phase and set week-by-week targets — for example, what your knee bend, quadriceps control, and walking aid should look like two, six, and twelve weeks out. If the surgeon’s team needs to be consulted, we do it, not you.
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Treatment: hands-on joint mobilisation and swelling management, scar mobilisation and desensitisation once healed, progressive strengthening, and gait retraining — correcting the limp early, before it becomes a habit, and progressing you off the walker or stick at the right time, not the fastest time.
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Home programme: a short daily exercise set matched to your protocol phase, with clear instructions on what you must not yet do. Family members are shown how to assist safely.
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Reviews and reporting: progress is re-measured at each protocol milestone, and we update your surgeon before follow-up visits so their clinical review and your rehab stay in sync.
Safety & Contraindications
This treatment is not suitable for everyone. Tell your physiotherapist about your full medical history — it is screened for at your first assessment.
- •Signs of wound infection — fever, spreading redness, discharge, or a hot swollen joint — stop rehabilitation and need same-day review by your surgeon.
- •Suspected deep vein thrombosis (new calf swelling, warmth, or pain after surgery) is an emergency referral, not something to exercise through.
- •We never exceed the surgeon’s stated restrictions: weight-bearing limits, range-of-motion limits after ligament or tendon repair, and spinal precautions (bending, lifting, twisting limits after fusion) hold until the surgeon lifts them, even if you feel ready earlier.
- •Sudden severe pain, a giving-way episode, or new deformity at the operated site pauses therapy pending surgical review — implant or graft problems must be ruled out first.
- •Scar mobilisation begins only once the wound is fully closed and sutures or staples are out; massaging an unhealed incision risks opening or infecting it.
Expected Timeline
Every surgery has its own clock, so ranges here are indicative, not promises. After knee or hip replacement, most people walk with support in the first days, and over roughly six to twelve weeks progress from walker to stick to independent walking, with strength work continuing beyond that. Modern guidance favours early mobilisation — being up on the day of or day after surgery — which is why starting physiotherapy promptly matters.
Ligament reconstructions run on a longer, criteria-based clock: an ACL graft, for example, needs months of progressive loading, and return to sport is decided by strength and control criteria — typically somewhere around nine months or later — not by the calendar alone. Spinal surgery recovery is similarly staged, with early walking encouraged but bending, lifting, and twisting restrictions held until your surgeon clears them.
At each protocol milestone we re-measure range, strength, and walking against the expected phase. If you are behind, the programme is adjusted and, where needed, your surgeon is informed — persistent stiffness or weakness caught at week six is far easier to correct than at month six. If you are ahead, progress is accelerated within the protocol, never outside it.
Evidence Base
NICE guidance on primary hip, knee, and shoulder replacement recommends offering rehabilitation on the day of surgery where possible, with advice, mobilisation, and home exercise thereafter.
NICE guideline NG157 — Joint replacement (primary): hip, knee and shoulderNICE recommends coordinated, goal-based rehabilitation plans after traumatic injury, including surgically treated injuries, with clear communication across the treating team.
NICE guideline NG211 — Rehabilitation after traumatic injuryA Cochrane review found that continuous passive motion machines add little clinically important benefit after knee replacement — supporting active, exercise-based rehabilitation as the core of recovery.
Cochrane review CD004260 — Continuous passive motion following total knee arthroplastyWHO identifies rehabilitation as an essential health service that helps people regain function and independence after surgery, injury, and illness.
World Health Organization — Rehabilitation fact sheetFrequently Asked Questions
Which doctor should I see for physiotherapy after surgery — and does my surgeon need to approve it?
Your surgeon and your physiotherapist share the job: the surgeon sets the boundaries of recovery, and the physiotherapist (at Modern Physio, Dr. Surabhi Bansal, BPT, MPT Ortho) runs the day-to-day rehabilitation inside them. Most surgeons actively expect physiotherapy after joint replacement, ligament, and spine surgery. Bring your discharge papers; if your surgeon issued a protocol we follow it, and if anything is unclear we contact their team directly.
How soon after my knee replacement should physiotherapy start?
Usually immediately — current guidance recommends getting patients up and moving on the day of surgery or the day after, and hospitals in Jaipur generally start basic mobilisation before discharge. Structured outpatient or home physiotherapy should follow within the first week. Delaying by a month is one of the most common and most avoidable causes of a stiff knee.
My operation was months ago and my joint is still stiff. Is it too late?
No — late rehabilitation is still worthwhile, though honest expectations matter. Stiffness, weakness, and a limp often improve with targeted work even months after surgery; gains simply come more slowly than they would have earlier. We assess, set a baseline, trial a defined block of treatment, and measure. If range is truly blocked and not responding, we say so and refer you back to your surgeon.
Do you follow my surgeon’s specific protocol or your own?
The operating surgeon’s protocol always takes precedence — they know what was done inside the joint and how strong the repair is. Where the surgeon has not issued a written protocol, we apply standard published protocols for that surgery and confirm the milestones with their team. You will never be pushed past a restriction your surgeon has set.
What is scar mobilisation and why does it matter?
Once a surgical wound has fully healed, the scar tissue underneath can stick to deeper layers, limiting movement and staying tender or oversensitive. Scar mobilisation uses specific massage and stretching to keep the tissue mobile, alongside desensitisation techniques for scars that are painful to touch. It starts only after the wound is closed and sutures are out — never on a healing incision.
How long until I can walk without a walker or stick after joint replacement?
Typically people move from walker to stick to independent walking over roughly six to twelve weeks after a knee or hip replacement, but the range is wide and depends on your strength before surgery, your age, and how consistently the home programme is done. We progress your walking aid based on measured strength and balance — dropping the stick too early usually entrenches a limp.
Can I do post-surgery physiotherapy at home in Jaipur?
Yes. Home sessions are available across Jaipur and are the practical choice for the first weeks after joint replacement or spine surgery, when travelling is hard. As you become mobile, shifting to the Vaishali Nagar clinic gives access to equipment for strengthening and gait work that home sessions cannot match. Many patients use a mix of both.
Do you provide prosthetic gait training after amputation?
Yes. Care covers the stages: residual limb care and shrinkage bandaging to shape the limb for a prosthetic socket, strength and balance preparation, and then progressive gait training once the prosthesis is fitted — coordinated with your surgeon and prosthetist.
How many sessions will I need, and what does it cost?
It depends on the surgery: joint replacements typically need structured rehab over two to three months, ACL reconstructions considerably longer, and simpler procedures less. After the first assessment you get a phase-wise plan with review points, so the course is transparent. The in-clinic session fee is ₹400, paid per visit, so a longer rehab course is not a larger upfront commitment. Call or WhatsApp +91 82334 02489 to book; the clinic is open seven days a week, 7 am–1 pm and 4 pm–9 pm.
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This content was reviewed for medical accuracy by Dr. Surabhi Bansal, BPT, MPT (Ortho) with 14+ years of clinical experience.
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