recovery from bilateral total knee arthroplasty can be very challenging. those individuals that have gone through it can confirm it first hand. like all things in medicine some people will recover quicker than others. in our practice most people that undergo bilateral tka [total knee arthroplasty] spend some period of time in a rehabilitation center after leaving the inpatient setting. i like to think that people are about 75% recovered at 6 weeks but it often seems like people make continued recovery all the way out to one year following surgery. this seems to hold relatively true for patients following single tka and therefore you can imagine that the recovery process could be even longer and more challenging when both are done at the same time. if you feel like you are making progress each day or week or even each month then you are probably headed to a good long term result. there are certainly times that patients will get discouraged by the challenge of recovery but remember that the overwhelming majority of patients that have the operation experience improvement in pain function and quality of life.
what is the recovery period for bilateral knee replacement?