Two Months After Your Surgery: Set Your Goals

Setting goals often helps people through rehabilitation after knee replacement surgery. It's okay to have longer-term goals, like "I want to ride my bicycle again," but it's more helpful to have smaller goals, ones you can accomplish sooner. For example, if you walked one block today, make your goal walking two blocks by next week. When that goal is accomplished, you can set another goal. These mini-milestones during your recovery will help you track your progress and allow you to keep pushing yourself toward longer-term goals.

Remember that you should always check with your surgeon and/or physical therapist before increasing your activity level.

Download a Worksheet to Track Your Goals

Set goals for your recovery, then work toward them and track your progress. When you download and print out this worksheet, it will be easy to keep your goals in sight.

As you get closer to your goals, think about how far you've come since your surgery, or even before it. Remember that even now, your recovery is a product of your hard work. Continue working toward your goals: every step you take is one step closer toward Restoring the Joy of Motion^™. Click here to download your worksheet.

Last Updated: 04/10/2007