INCIPIENT REHABILITATION AFTER ENDOPROSTHESIS REPLACEMENT OF LARGE JOINTS - PERMITTED LIMITS?

The article discusses four years’ experience of the Centre of high medical technologies in organizing the early postoperative rehabilitation after endoprosthesis replacement of large joints of the lower limbs, the algorithm of rehabilitation measures in accordance with the standard indications for early activation of the patients, performs a description of recovery programs in groups according to the rehabilitation potential, analysis of the function of the operated joint on the international rating scales. Developed and used standardized complex of recovery treatment, early activation, method of passive mechanotherapy, nosotropic physical methods allow increasing the efficiency of patients’ treatment, restoring the lost range of motions, providing a good adaptation to the new biomechanical conditions of movement.

high-tech operative measures, rehabilitation programs, endoprosthesis of large joints, mechanotherapy, the rating scale