A Comprehensive Approach

Wentworth-Douglass Hospital has prioritized excellent outcomes in its total joint program. Lindsay Bradley, RN is our Program Coordinator. She meticulously collects data on all total joint patients to ensure our success. We have a multidisciplinary team which meets regularly to delve into the data and strives to make our program one that will beat all of your expectations.

Lindsay Bradley can be reached at (603) 609-6135.

The Wentworth-Douglass patient education handbook for total knee replacement is available here for you to read.

Surgical Optimization Center

Prior to surgery, all total joint patients meet with Dr. Wheeler and her team to fully understand how their medical conditions affect their surgical risk. Dr. Wheeler coordinates with the primary care doctor and other specialists to ensure that any chronic medical conditions are well managed and will have as little impact on outcomes as possible.

Meet Dr. Wheeler

Prehabilitation

Working with a physical therapist to improve your motion, strength and balance has been shown to improve your eventual outcome and speed your recovery.

Katrina Lampros, MPT

Katrina is a Wentworth-Douglass physical therapist who has been instrumental in building our prehabilitation program. She describes its benefits in the video to the right and in a blog post on the WDH website which you can read following this link.

Blog Post

Perioperative Pain Management

Using a multi-modal pain management plan, we are able to keep patients remarkably comfortable even immediately after surgery.

Afternoon after surgery

With the success of our pain control strategies, we are able to get patients up and out of bed very quickly after surgery. Most are walking around the nurse’s station within a couple hours.

Next day discharge

Most patients are now going home the morning after their surgery.

Same day discharge

A growing number of patients are going home the day of surgery. We have put together a comprehensive structure to allow same day discharge safely.

Outpatient Physical Therapy

Getting to an outpatient physical therapy provider as soon as possible after surgery is important. While some patients will require a visiting therapist for a week or so, I strongly encourage all my patients to have an outpatient appointment set up for the second day after surgery prior to having the procedure.