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Massage after knee replacement is gentle, specific work that sits alongside your physiotherapy, and it can start only with your surgeon’s or physiotherapist’s clearance. Your new knee doesn’t care that it’s January, so it swells and sulks right on schedule. A massage therapist works above the joint with light strokes aimed at moving fluid, adds slow work on the tight thigh and calf muscles and never touches the incision itself, and you can arrange<\/span> post-op lymphatic drainage massage<\/span><\/a> at home without scraping ice off the car.<\/span><\/p>\n

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