Recovery from knee replacement surgery for a motivated patient can take up to a year, with significant improvements seen up to and beyond that point.

“it's 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”

“it's nonlinear I mean corre it's you know you're probably getting 80% better in 6 months and then you”

“I have patients who are coming in at their six-month visit and they're saying I think something's wrong my knee still hurts I'm still having trouble and I always have to remind them there's a reason why I said it may take a year”

“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 yeah but people are showing improvements even Beyond a year and it's non-linear I mean it's you know you're probably getting 80 percent better in six months and then yeah”