Tumour & limb salvage: rehabilitation guide
Last reviewed 5 August 2026 · Reviewed by Dr Matthew Broadhead, FRACS (Orth) · 24 minute read
This guide covers recovery after a proximal femoral replacement: a megaprosthesis that replaces the upper part of the thigh bone and the hip joint after a bone or soft-tissue tumour is removed. It is written for patients of the RPA Bone & Soft Tissue Sarcoma Unit and, just as deliberately, for the physiotherapists, often a long way from Sydney, on the Mid North Coast and beyond, who will do most of the hands-on work.
One rule sits above everything else in limb-salvage rehabilitation: the site of the reconstruction, not the diagnosis, determines the protocol. Two people with the same tumour can have completely different programmes; two people with different tumours at the same site follow much the same one. And within that, the operation record governs, what was removed, what was reattached, and which implant was used decide your restrictions, and Dr Broadhead’s operation note always overrides the general figures in this guide.
A megaprosthesis replaces a segment of bone and the adjacent joint. The metal is fixed and stable straight away; what dictates your programme is which muscles and tendons had to be detached and reattached, at the hip, above all the abductor muscles that keep your pelvis level when you walk. Recovery is measured in months, not weeks, and the functional ceiling is lower than after a standard hip replacement: most patients walk independently, with or without a stick, and return to daily activities, but not to running or impact sport. Early, staged, active rehabilitation is safe: reviews of limb-salvage rehabilitation show early active mobilisation does not increase dislocation or infection and is associated with better quality of life.
Three things are lifelong. Avoid impact loading, to limit wear. Expect that revision surgery is likely at some point over a lifetime. These implants are serviced, not set-and-forget. And keep lifelong vigilance for infection: deep infection is the most significant risk in this surgery, considerably more common than after standard joint replacement, and it is never a wait-and-see problem. Surveillance imaging of both the tumour site and the prosthesis continues for years. The follow-up schedule is part of the treatment, not an optional extra.
The tumour was removed together with the segment of thigh bone (femur) it involved, including the ball of the hip joint, with a margin of healthy tissue around it. Getting the tumour out safely comes first; everything about the reconstruction is designed around what that removal required.
The missing bone and joint were replaced with a modular metal implant: a megaprosthesis: anchored in the remaining femur, with a new bearing at the hip. Depending on your anatomy and the soft tissue available, this may be a dual-mobility or constrained bearing, which are designed to reduce the risk of dislocation; the operation record states which was used, and that choice shapes your precautions.
The most important part for rehabilitation is not the metal. It is the soft tissue. The hip capsule and the short rotator muscles are usually removed with the tumour, and the abductor muscles (the muscles on the side of the hip that keep your pelvis level) are reattached to the prosthesis or to preserved bone. That reattachment heals on a biological timetable of months, and protecting it is the reason for almost every restriction in this guide.
Limb-salvage programmes are built around what was removed and reattached, not around the name of the tumour. This guide describes the typical proximal femoral pathway; your operation record is the final word on your weight bearing, brace and precautions. If anything here conflicts with what your team told you, your team is right.
You can load the implant early because it is fixed at surgery. What needs time is the reattached abductor muscle and the scar tissue that must form a new stabilising envelope where the capsule used to be. The limit on what you do is soft-tissue healing, not the bone or the metal.
The capsule and short rotators: the hip’s natural restraints, are removed with the tumour, so the new hip depends on scar tissue, the reattached abductors and your discipline with the precautions. Dual-mobility and constrained bearings reduce this risk and may allow fewer restrictions, but the precautions in your operation record are non-negotiable for as long as they are prescribed.
The reattached abductors determine whether you walk with a mild lean or a marked lurch for the rest of your life. That is why active sideways lifting of the leg is deliberately deferred, and why the early programme feels conservative: the repair must heal before it is loaded. Your team will advance this: do not advance it yourself.
Most patients end up walking independently, with or without a stick, doing their own shopping, driving and living a full daily life. Running, jumping and impact sport are not part of the picture, and a degree of limp may persist. Knowing that from the start is not pessimism. It is how you recognise a good result when you reach it.
Your team may mention two scores. The MSTS score is the clinician’s rating of limb function from 0 to 100%. The TESS is your own rating of how difficult everyday tasks are. Good limb-salvage results typically land in the 70–85% range on these scales: good function, not normal function. A score in that range is a genuinely good outcome after this surgery.
Weight bearing
Usually weight bearing as tolerated from the outset. The limit is the healing soft tissue, not the bone. Confirm against your operation record.
The implant is anchored securely at surgery, so in most cases you can put weight through the leg from the first day or two, using a frame for balance and safety. Early standing and walking are safe and protect you against clots, chest problems and deconditioning.
What early weight bearing does not license is early muscle loading. Taking weight through a straight leg is gentle on the abductor repair; actively lifting the leg sideways or walking long distances without support is not. The programme separates the two deliberately.
The aid progression below is slower than after a standard hip replacement, and that is by design. Expect the frame-to-crutches-to-stick journey to take roughly 6 to 12 weeks, and often longer. Many patients keep a stick for distance or crowds indefinitely. That is a sensible adaptation, not a failure.
| Stage | Typical timing | Move on when |
|---|---|---|
| Wheeled frame | From day 1 to around 2 weeks, sometimes longer | Safe transfers; steady, confident stepping; precautions maintained without prompting |
| Two crutches | Roughly weeks 2–6 | Walking without the pelvis dropping badly; managing distances around the home |
| One crutch, then a stick (opposite hand) | Roughly weeks 6–12 | Team confirms the abductor repair is ready for more single-leg load; gait controlled |
| Stick as needed | From around 3 months, often longer, and sometimes long term | Walking safely; many patients sensibly keep a stick for outdoors and distance |
In a standard hip replacement the capsule and small rotator muscles are largely preserved and the precautions are a courtesy to healing tissue. Here they were removed with the tumour, so until scar tissue forms a new envelope, the positions below can lever the ball out of the socket. Dislocation after a proximal femoral replacement is considerably more common than after routine hip replacement. The precautions are how you stay out of that statistic.
| Rule | Why | How to manage |
|---|---|---|
| Do not bend the hip past 90 degrees | Deep flexion drives the ball towards the back edge of the socket, where the removed capsule can no longer stop it. | Sit on raised chairs and a raised toilet seat; keep the knees below the hips; don’t lean forward from sitting, bring things to you, or use a pick-up reacher for the floor. |
| Do not cross the leg past the midline of your body | Crossing the midline combines with rotation to unseat the joint. | Keep a pillow between the knees when lying on your side and when turning in bed; don’t cross your legs or ankles when sitting. |
| Do not turn the leg or foot inward | Inward rotation is the classic final ingredient in a posterior dislocation. | Keep the kneecap and toes pointing forward or slightly out, especially when turning: turn by stepping around in small steps rather than pivoting on the leg. |
| No low chairs, low sofas or low car seats | A low seat forces the hip well past 90 degrees at the hardest moment: getting up. | Choose firm chairs with arms; add a cushion to raise the seat; slide to the front edge and keep the operated leg out in front as you stand. |
| Wear the abduction brace exactly as prescribed, if one was fitted | The brace holds the leg out to the side, in the safest position for the healing repair, during the highest-risk weeks. | Commonly worn for up to about 4 weeks, but practice varies with the implant: your operation record and your team’s instructions govern the schedule, including whether it is worn at night. |
| Period | Instruction |
|---|---|
| While prescribed (commonly up to about 4 weeks) | Wear as your team directs, typically whenever you are up and walking, and often in bed as well in the first weeks. Do not adjust the hinge settings yourself. |
| Weaning | Your team will set the weaning plan at review. Do not stop wearing the brace on your own initiative, even if it feels unnecessary. |
| Milestone | Earliest (weeks) | Typical | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standing and walking with a frame | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Wound review | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Abduction brace weaned (if prescribed: team decision) | 3 | 4 | 6 |
| Two crutches | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| Clinical review with X-ray: precautions reassessed | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| Active abduction started (team-cleared) | 6 | 8 | 12 |
| One crutch or a stick | 6 | 10 | 16 |
| Desk work (individually confirmed) | 6 | 8 | 12 |
| Driving (criteria met, discussed with the team) | 6 | 10 | 16 |
| Walking with a stick as needed, often the long-term pattern | 12 | 16 | 26 |
| Three-month review | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| Surveillance imaging: schedule set by the sarcoma team, continuing for years | 12 | 13 | 52 |
You move to the next phase by meeting its exit criteria, not by the calendar. The week numbers are typical, nothing more.
Safe transfers and short frame walks, strict precautions, isometric muscle work, and calm, controlled healing.
Ready for the next phase when…
Build walking tolerance on crutches, keep the abductor repair unloaded, and strengthen everything that is safe to strengthen.
Ready for the next phase when…
Precautions relaxed as your team advises, active abduction introduced under supervision, and the walk rebuilt deliberately.
Ready for the next phase when…
Endurance, balance and strength for real life, honest expectations about the limp, and settling into the lifelong routine of surveillance.
Ready for the next phase when…
Little and often beats one heroic session. Each exercise lists what you should feel, sharp pain that lingers afterwards means ease off and, if it persists, call.
Keep blood moving in the calf: your main clot-prevention exercise.
10 firm pumps, every waking hour, for the first 2 weeks
Feel: You should feel the calf muscles working. Move through the full range each time.
Keep the thigh muscle switched on, isometric work is safe from day one and costs the repair nothing.
10 holds of 5 seconds, 3–4 times daily
Feel: You should feel the front of the thigh firm up. No movement of the hip is needed. That is the point.
Wake the buttock muscles without moving or loading the healing hip.
10 holds of 5 seconds, 3–4 times daily
Feel: You should feel the buttocks tighten and rise slightly. Keep breathing: do not hold your breath.
Safe, rhythmic early walking: the most important “exercise” of the first fortnight.
Short walks, several times a day, building distance gradually
Feel: Even step lengths. Keep the toes pointing forward, no pivoting on the operated leg to turn; step around in small steps instead.
A smoother, more upright walk as your tolerance builds.
Replace frame walks once your team progresses you; build distance week on week
Feel: Stand tall; look ahead, not at your feet. If the pelvis is lurching sideways, slow down and shorten the steps.
Real-world leg strength within the precautions.
2–3 sets of 8–10, once or twice daily
Feel: Keep the knees apart and the operated foot pointing forward. The hip must stay above 90 degrees, if it cannot, the chair is too low.
Harder: Less arm assistance over time; your team will advise before lowering the seat height.
Calf strength for push-off: safe to train early because it does not load the hip repair.
2–3 sets of 10, once or twice daily
Feel: Even weight through both feet, or as your weight-bearing status allows.
Soften and desensitise the scar once fully healed.
2–3 minutes, twice daily, from about 3 weeks once healed and dry
Feel: Firm enough to blanch the skin slightly; it should not be painful. If you have had radiotherapy to the area, ask your team before starting.
Rebuild the reattached abductors: the muscles that decide your walk. Deliberately deferred until the repair has healed.
Only when your team clears it, typically from around 6–12 weeks. Start as prescribed; a common starting dose is 2 sets of 8, once daily
Feel: You should feel the muscles on the side of the hip working. No swinging or trick movements: small and honest beats big and cheated.
Harder: Your physiotherapist advances this, from gravity-eliminated sliding, to lifting, to side-lying, on the team’s timetable, not the calendar’s.
Endurance and movement with almost no joint load.
10–20 minutes, most days, once your team agrees
Feel: No pinching at the front of the hip, raise the saddle if there is.
Steadiness, abductor endurance and confidence: protects you from trips and falls.
Build to 3 holds of 30 seconds each leg, daily, once your team clears single-leg loading
Feel: A mirror helps: watch for the pelvis dropping on the free-leg side and correct it gently. Quiet foot, tall posture.
Sleep on your back for the early weeks, with the pillow arrangement your team shows you and the abduction brace on at night if that was prescribed.
Do not lie on the operated side until your team clears it. If you are cleared to lie on the non-operated side, keep a firm pillow between the knees and ankles so the operated leg cannot drop across the midline.
Keep the leg from rolling inward as you drift off. A rolled towel along the outside of the thigh can help keep the toes pointing up.
Disturbed sleep is common for some weeks and improves as swelling and pain settle. Timing pain relief for the night helps.
Expect to need regular pain relief for the first few weeks, weaning gradually. Take medication ahead of exercise sessions rather than chasing pain afterwards, and wean the strongest medications first.
You will usually be on a blood thinner: take it exactly as directed.
If you are having chemotherapy, the rehabilitation and oncology timetables are coordinated by your team, energy levels, blood counts and treatment cycles all shape what each week looks like, and a slower fortnight during treatment is expected, not a setback.
Aching around the hip and thigh, tightness, and tiredness after activity persist for months and are normal. Pain that is increasing week on week, or new pain at rest or at night, is not, call the rooms.
You may drive when all of the following are true:
What the research actually measures is braking reaction time on a simulator. Those studies show braking performance returns to its pre-operative level at about 2 weeks after a right hip replacement and about 4 weeks after a right knee replacement, with movement time back to normal by 6 weeks. After knee arthroscopy the simulator evidence is more conservative than common practice: in the one study that measured it directly, braking was still slower one week after surgery than before it, and had recovered by four weeks, and a 2021 review of eight studies put the average return at about six weeks. Most people having a simple arthroscopy are driving well before that, which is why the criteria above matter more than the date. But these are averages, in one study, about one in three right-hip patients still could not meet an emergency-stop benchmark at six weeks. Treat the timeframes in this guide as targets for discussion with us, not as permissions.
No published study has compared automatic and manual cars. The logical point is simply that a manual needs the left leg for the clutch, so left-sided surgery is the relevant caution in a manual. Advice about driving earlier with a left-leg operation in an automatic is clinical judgement, not trial evidence.
In Australia, your treating doctor’s advice governs: under the Austroads "Assessing Fitness to Drive" standards, temporary post-operative impairment is a matter of clinical judgement, and commercial drivers are held to a higher standard. Driving while impaired may invalidate your insurance, check your insurer’s position. Do not drive for at least 24 hours after any general anaesthetic or sedation.
| Activity | Typical | When it’s right | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walking for exercise | From the outset, with the prescribed aid | Comfort, safety and the precautions | The core of the programme: build distance gradually |
| Swimming and hydrotherapy | Once the wound is fully healed and your team agrees | Wound reviewed and closed; safe pool access | Excellent low-load exercise; avoid breaststroke kick until your team clears it |
| Stationary cycling | When your team agrees, usually after the 6 to 8 week review | Saddle high; precautions manageable | Progress time before resistance |
| Driving | Individually assessed, usually not before the precautions are relaxed | All the driving criteria below, discussed with the team | Getting in and out of the car safely matters as much as the pedals |
| Desk work | Commonly in the 6–12 week window. Your team will confirm | Comfortable sitting on a suitable (raised) chair; transport sorted | A raised, firm office chair; get up and move hourly |
| Physical work | Individually assessed | Duties reviewed with the team | Heavy physical work is often not a realistic goal after proximal femoral replacement, raise your actual duties early so retraining or modified duties can be planned honestly |
| Golf, bowls, doubles tennis and similar low-impact sport | Team-cleared, usually well after 3 months | Strength, balance and gait re-established | Discuss the specific sport: rotation and uneven ground are the considerations |
| Running, jumping and impact or contact sport | Not part of life with a megaprosthesis | — | This is a permanent trade: impact accelerates wear and risks fracture through bone weakened by resection, radiotherapy and chemotherapy |
| Air travel | Discuss with the team: see the travel notes in this guide | Clot prevention planned | Especially relevant for Mid North Coast patients travelling to Sydney for reviews. The same planning applies to long drives: break them up, move hourly |
You will often hear "no flying for six weeks" after joint replacement. Be aware that this is a convention, not a proven rule: a 2025 review found limited data and no demonstrated difference in clot risk between people who did and did not fly after hip or knee replacement: mostly within the first week.
The six-week convention reflects practical realities rather than trial evidence: managing airports and cramped seating, being past the highest-risk clot window while still on prevention, the higher baseline clot risk of long-haul flights over four hours, and individual airline and travel-insurance rules, check both, as some airlines impose their own restrictions.
If you need to travel long-haul in the first six weeks, talk to the rooms first so clot prevention, an aisle seat, stockings and on-board movement can be planned.
None of these should be watched overnight to see how they go. Early treatment of a problem is simple; late treatment is not.
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For joint replacement patients, a wound problem is never something to "wait and see". Early treatment of an infected joint replacement is vastly more successful than late treatment, call the rooms the same day.
You will usually stand and take your first steps with a frame within a day or two of surgery. The implant is stable immediately. The journey from frame to two crutches to one stick then takes roughly 6 to 12 weeks, and often longer; recovery from this surgery is measured in months, not weeks. Many people keep a stick for distance or uneven ground long term, which is a sensible adaptation rather than a setback.
No, and it is better to hear that clearly at the start. Running, jumping and impact sport are not part of life with a megaprosthesis: impact accelerates wear of the implant and risks fracture through bone weakened by the resection and by any radiotherapy or chemotherapy. The realistic and genuinely good outcome is independent walking, with or without a stick, a full daily life, and low-impact exercise such as walking, swimming and cycling.
Because the tumour took the hip’s natural restraints with it. In a standard hip replacement the capsule and small rotator muscles are largely preserved; here they are removed as part of getting the tumour out safely, so dislocation is considerably more common and the precautions carry real weight, for at least 6 weeks, and until your team relaxes them. If a dual-mobility or constrained bearing was used, your restrictions may be fewer: your operation record governs.
Dislocation means the ball comes out of the socket. It announces itself: sudden pain, the leg looking shorter or turned, and being unable to move the hip. That is an emergency: call 000 or go straight to the emergency department; do not try to walk on it or “work it back in”. Prevention is the whole point of the precautions and the brace, and the risk falls as scar tissue matures.
If one was prescribed, commonly up to about 4 weeks, but practice genuinely varies with the implant and the soft-tissue repair, and some patients (particularly with dual-mobility or constrained bearings) do not need one at all. Your operation record and your team set the schedule and the weaning plan. Do not stop wearing it on your own initiative, even if it feels unnecessary. The repair it protects cannot tell you how it is going.
The sideways lean over the operated leg. A Trendelenburg lurch, happens because the abductor muscles that keep the pelvis level were detached with the tumour and reattached to the prosthesis. It usually improves slowly as the repair matures and the strengthening programme takes effect, but honestly: it may persist to some degree. A stick in the opposite hand smooths it considerably, which is one reason many patients keep one for distance.
Active abduction: lifting the leg out to the side: pulls directly on the reattached abductor muscles, and that repair heals on a timetable of months. Loading it early risks stretching or pulling it off, which would trade a temporary restriction for a permanent limp. Your team will start abduction work deliberately, usually somewhere after the 6 to 8 week review, and your physiotherapist will progress it in stages.
Two ways of measuring how the limb is doing. The MSTS score is the clinician’s rating of limb function on a 0–100% scale; the TESS is your own rating of how difficult everyday tasks are. Good limb-salvage results typically land in the 70–85% range. That means good function, not normal function, and a score in that range after a proximal femoral replacement is a genuinely good outcome.
This is normal and it works well. Most of the hands-on rehabilitation happens locally, guided by the operation record and the protocol your Sydney team provides. Your physiotherapist is welcome: encouraged, to contact the rooms directly with questions, and the key decision points (relaxing precautions, starting abduction, weaning aids) are made at your reviews and communicated in writing. Bring this guide and your operation record to your first local appointment.
Deep infection is the most significant risk of this surgery: considerably more common than after standard joint replacement, partly because chemotherapy and radiotherapy affect healing and immunity. Watch for increasing pain, spreading redness, wound discharge, fever or feeling unwell, and call the rooms the same day, every time, for the rest of your life with the implant. Early treatment of an infected prosthesis is vastly more successful than late treatment. Also tell every future dentist and doctor you have a megaprosthesis before procedures.
The general convention after joint replacement is no long-haul flying for 6 weeks, though the evidence behind a fixed rule is limited, talk to the team before any early travel so clot prevention, seating and movement can be planned. The same logic applies to the long drive from the Mid North Coast: break the trip, get out and move every hour, do your ankle pumps, and travel as a passenger with the seat set up for your precautions until you are cleared to drive.
Regular reviews with imaging of both the tumour site and the prosthesis, on a schedule your sarcoma team sets: frequent at first, spacing out over years. It checks for things you cannot feel: early recurrence, implant wear or loosening. Between scans, report anything new: a lump, new pain at any site, a wound concern: the same day rather than saving it for the next appointment. Expect, too, that revision surgery of some kind is likely at some point over a lifetime: these implants are serviced, not permanent.
| Claim | Source |
|---|---|
| The site of reconstruction, not the diagnosis, determines the rehabilitation protocol in lower-limb endoprosthetic surgery | Standardisation of rehabilitation after limb salvage surgery for sarcomas improves outcome, Hematol Oncol Stem Cell Ther 2013 (PMID 24161605); late complications and survival of endoprosthetic reconstruction after resection of bone tumours, Clin Orthop Relat Res 2010 (PMID 20625951) |
| Early, staged, active mobilisation after limb-salvage surgery is safe, no increase in dislocation or infection, associated with better quality of life | Standardisation of rehabilitation after limb salvage surgery for sarcomas improves outcome, Hematol Oncol Stem Cell Ther 2013 (PMID 24161605); occupational therapy rehabilitation after limb salvage surgery, a scoping review, Disabil Rehabil 2021 (PMID 31180732) |
| Dislocation after proximal femoral replacement is considerably more common than after conventional hip replacement, attributed to resection of the capsule and short external rotators | Functional outcome of endoprosthetic proximal femoral replacement, Clin Orthop Relat Res 2004 (PMID 15346050); dislocation and revision risk in proximal femoral replacement, Clin Orthop Relat Res 2023 (PMID 36897193), where the 5-year dislocation risk was 17%, against roughly 2% after conventional hip replacement |
| Dual-mobility and constrained acetabular bearings reduce dislocation risk after proximal femoral replacement and may permit fewer postoperative restrictions | Dual mobility to prevent dislocation after tumour resection, Orthop Traumatol Surg Res 2010 (PMID 20170850); dislocation and revision risk with dual-mobility proximal femoral replacement, Clin Orthop Relat Res 2023 (PMID 36897193), a revision-for-infection cohort rather than an oncology one |
| Abductor reattachment quality is a principal determinant of gait (Trendelenburg lurch) and function after proximal femoral replacement; a residual lurch commonly persists | Functional outcome of endoprosthetic proximal femoral replacement, Clin Orthop Relat Res 2004 (PMID 15346050); gait and walking speed after endoprosthetic reconstruction, Clin Orthop Relat Res 2015 (PMID 24777730) |
| Deep infection is the most significant complication of megaprosthetic reconstruction and is considerably more common than after conventional arthroplasty | Henderson et al., failure mode classification for tumour endoprostheses, J Bone Joint Surg Am 2011 (PMID 21368074); the fate of periprosthetic joint infection following megaprosthesis reconstruction, JB JS Open Access 2021 (PMID 34841189), where 2-year survivorship after infection was 65.1% and mortality 15% |
| Revision surgery is likely at some point over a lifetime with a megaprosthesis; impact loading accelerates wear and is advised against | Survival of megaprostheses in lower limb reconstruction after tumour resection, Clin Orthop Relat Res 2015 (PMID 24964884): overall survival free of further surgery 75.9% at 5 years and 66.2% at 10 years |
| MSTS is a clinician-rated 0–100% limb-function score; TESS is a patient-reported measure of everyday task difficulty; good limb-salvage outcomes typically fall in the 70–85% range | Enneking et al., MSTS functional evaluation system, Clin Orthop Relat Res 1993 (PMID 8425352); Davis et al., development of the Toronto Extremity Salvage Score, Qual Life Res 1996 (PMID 8973131); functional outcome of endoprosthetic proximal femoral replacement, Clin Orthop Relat Res 2004 (PMID 15346050) |
| Bone weakened by resection, radiotherapy and chemotherapy carries an elevated periprosthetic fracture risk, including after minor loading | Henderson et al., failure mode classification for tumour endoprostheses, J Bone Joint Surg Am 2011 (PMID 21368074), in which periprosthetic fracture is a recognised failure mode; late complications and survival of endoprosthetic reconstruction, Clin Orthop Relat Res 2010 (PMID 20625951). The added contribution of radiotherapy and chemotherapy to that risk is a clinical concern rather than a quantified finding |
| Long-term surveillance imaging of the tumour site and prosthesis is standard of care for years after sarcoma resection and endoprosthetic reconstruction | Soft tissue and visceral sarcomas: ESMO-EURACAN-GENTURIS clinical practice guidelines, Ann Oncol 2021 (PMID 34303806) |
This guide is general information for patients of Dr Matthew Broadhead (Harbour Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine) and is not a substitute for the specific advice given to you by Dr Broadhead, your physiotherapist or your hospital team.
Surgical findings vary, and your protocol may differ from what is written here: your operation record and your surgeon’s instructions always take precedence.
If in doubt, call the rooms on (02) 9052 1883. In an emergency, call 000.
Last reviewed: 2026-08-05 by Dr Matthew Broadhead, FRACS (Orth).
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