For other types of surgery, foot surgery is often unique because, unlike abdominal or back surgery, the weight and pressure of the body are placed directly on the surgical site during recovery. Even knee and hip surgery is not directly affected by the weight of the body on the ground like the hands and feet. For this reason, recovery for foot surgery is often difficult for some people, especially if the surgeon's instructions are not fully followed or ignored. This article will discuss how to help recover from foot surgery easier.
First of all, it must be pointed out that many different operations have been performed on the feet and on the ankles. Each of these processes has different recovery requirements, and some even have very unique instructions that must be followed to successfully recover. The specific instructions of the surgeon are important and must be followed. The recommendations in this article are intended to be a general guide to recovery from typical foot surgery, but may not provide a complete picture of a person's specific recovery needs. The last word in a person's specific recovery comes from their surgeon, not the article. Keep this in mind when reading the information below.
Surgery is essentially the expected injury to the body. It is natural or healthy to make the incision into the skin and cut it, moving or removing the deeper tissue. The body even treats the most skilled surgery as injury, similar to a stab wound, sprain or fracture. The body has a natural recovery process that begins immediately after the injury. This process involves chemical, cellular and reactive letter soups that immediately build up injured tissue in an attempt to begin the repair process. This initial process is called inflammation, including swelling, warmth and possibly redness. It may look like an infection outside because the body's response to bacteria is similar. This inflammation can produce most of the pain after a foot surgery for several reasons. First, the foot has a limited area where tissue can swell and any excess exchange can push the river and other sensitive tissues to cause pain. Second, since the foot is usually the lowest point of the body, gravity naturally forces fluid into the foot, not any other part of the body. This initial infection lasts for a period of 4 to 7 days after surgery and gradually decreases after that period. After this time, moderate inflammation will certainly last longer, but most of the chemical reactions involved in the swelling and inflammation process peak and fall during the first week after surgery. Since this procedure may cause a lot of agitation or tingling after surgery, all instructions regarding icing, foot elevation and activity limits should be followed, which will reduce inflammation. Anti-inflammatory drugs are sometimes used during this period to help reduce inflammation. However, it should be recognized that this inflammation is critical to the healing process and requires some inflammation to begin repairing the surgical site. The body does tend to significantly exceed this response, and there is a large amount of inflammation that can be reduced to limit pain while leaving enough healing process.
Some of the pain after foot surgery is not directly related to the healing process, but to the actual incision or behavior of the cut. The feet contain a terrible neural network, many of which are trivial. The foot surgeon carefully avoids cutting the visible nerve during the surgical resection [except that it is the removed nerve]. However, in the process of making the incision, the microscopic skin nerves are indeed cut off, which is unavoidable. Sometimes, despite the most detailed work, small nerves can be damaged or cut off during surgery. In general, all of these nerves can heal smoothly, but pain can occur in the next few days after surgery, usually not due to icing, elevated or anti-inflammatory drugs. This type of pain is best controlled by an anesthetic, which is why anesthesia is often prescribed after surgery. In most cases, the use of anesthesia in foot surgery is usually limited to the first two or three weeks after the surgery. Pain that is caused by icing, elevated or anti-inflammatory drugs for longer durations is uncommon and surgeons need to investigate further to determine the cause. Of course, each patient's tolerance to pain is different, and those patients are overly sensitive to pain and discomfort. However, the vast majority of patients had almost no residual pain for three weeks after foot surgery, except for mild soreness or stiffness. Some procedures may be incorrect, including surgery to release or sever nerve tissue, while requiring multiple surgical procedures, complex fracture repair or large foot reconstruction. Since these procedures are often traumatic, the inflammatory process or general nerve-related pain can last longer.
Shortly after surgery, in addition to icing or raising the feet, one of the biggest mistakes people made after performing a foot surgery was to restore semi-normal activities. What is unique about foot surgery is that, unlike abdominal surgery, the body usually feels good shortly after surgery. The desires and tendencies to get up and become active are strong. Unfortunately, the foot does not return to normal activity and the surgical site may actually be harmed by this activity. Tissue held together by stitching takes time to mend, and immediate activity can stretch and pull these fragile bonds. Early activities can lead to more infections, delayed healing and future scar tissue. The skin incision may even split. By becoming active earlier than the recommendations, natural gravity push forces fluid into the foot, increases and prolongs the inflammatory process, and may lead to long-term sharing, which will last for months after surgery. If the bone is manipulated and needles, wires, screws or staples hold the bone together, the suggested early activity for the surgeon can result in healing of a portion of the bone, or at least delayed or abnormal positioning. There are procedures, especially joint implantation or remodeling procedures, that require early activity to prevent joint stiffness. Long-term complications and unnecessary pain can be avoided by following the surgeon's specific instructions for postoperative activities.
The last method to make foot surgery easier is to keep the dressing clean and intact. One of the most common complications that can make recovery difficult in all types of surgery is infection. Although the surgery is performed in a sterile environment, bacteria still invade the surgical site after surgery. Many times this is due to the patient's dressing being wet or heavily contaminated. Bacteria have the ability to pass through multiple layers of gauze and can easily invade the surgical site when assisted by water, or when the material is applied to a dressing having a high bacterial count. Many people are naturally resistant to bacteria at the skin level, but when there is an incision, this can be an automatic entry of bacteria into deep tissue that is less resistant. There are also those with a higher risk of infection, including people with diabetes and people with impaired immune systems. Surgical infections range from simple skin infections that require only oral antibiotics to severe infections involving deep tissue and bone that require intravenous antibiotics, hospitalization, and possibly more surgery. By keeping a person's dressings and bandages dry and clean, and not removing the dressing before the surgeon indicates, one can have a reasonable sense of infection protection. Of course, even in the healthiest patients, infections sometimes happen suddenly. However, these rare and spontaneous infections are difficult to prevent or anticipate.
By ensuring that the feet are frozen, raised, rested and kept dry and clean, the main problems after recovery from foot surgery can be alleviated or avoided altogether. It is important to follow the surgeon's instructions strictly, as only the surgeon knows the nature of the procedure and what it takes to recover. By remembering this, one can ensure a comfortable and rapid recovery from foot surgery.
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