Full recovery from knee replacement for a motivated patient can take up to a year, with significant improvement often seen within six months.

“I will I will always tell them all this is going to take you a year of recovery okay because I don't know who's going to be shorter than that and there's a number of people who continue to improve up to a year and sometimes even longer but I don't say more than a year because it's just too painful to even contemplate a year is pretty long y but people are showing improvements even Beyond a year and it's nonlinear I mean corre it's you know you're probably getting 80% better in 6 months and then you”