Announcing Our New Pre-Op Knee/Hip Education Program
Informed Pre-Op Education IS Medicine
The classic, “old-school” pre-surgical education is NOT very effective for improving outcomes or patient satisfaction. Many times it not only fails to answer questions that patients are most interested in, but also strengthens misperceptions regarding pain and movement, degrading patients’ post-op experience and outcome.
Due to precautions during the current COVID-19 crisis, we will be moving these monthly classes online. Please contact Dr. Ivan Vicario directly at ivan@gasparpt.com for further information. Thank you.
Here’s the GOOD NEWS!
Recent research indicates that a different approach to pre-operative patient education, called Pain Neuroscience Education (PNE), is much more effective and is considered BEST practice. Even if you have already had surgery, this type of education session has been shown to be a very effective complement to your traditional post-operative Physical Therapy program.Immediately after PNE patients scheduled for knee replacement experience:
- Reduced fear of movement
- Decreased sensitivity to pain
- Positive shifts in their beliefs about their future knee surgery.
Other benefits of PNE post-op programs:
- Markedly improved sense of preparedness for surgery
- Improved patient satisfaction with surgery (and their orthopaedic surgeon)
- Reduced need for multiple medical follow-up visits
- Reduced need for physical therapy visits
- Drastic reduction in cost of post-operative health care costs (45%)