Knee replacement surgery typically takes one to two hours with incisions ranging from 10 cm and involves more post-operative struggle compared to hip replacement.

“how long does this operation take it depends anywhere from an hour to two hours depending on the complexity of the surgery and how big is the incision it's straight it's a midline in it's a midline incision anywhere from 10 cm it depends on the knee it's it's it goes from here to here and unlike the hip which we talked about earlier where the difference between what happens today and 20 years ago is night and day and these patients are they just feel amazing um these patients still struggle post-operatively yes less so we learned a lot during Co that you can do these outpatient very safely and uh there the the technology is improving with total NE Replacements too where the incisions can be a little smaller”