Joint Replacement Finger and Hand Surgery Due To Rheumatoid Arthritis - Video 1

http://restministries.com founder, Lisa Copen, designed this video series to describe her recent experience of having 4 joints replaced in her left hand due to 16 years of living with rheumatoid arthritis for other patients who are considering a similar surgery. Lisa is the founder of National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week http://invisibleillnessweek.com

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• RArheumatoid arthritis
• joint replacement surgery
• disfigurement hand therapy
• physical therapy
• silicone joints
• Arthroplasty
• finger joint replacement
• RA
• surgery recovery time
• straighten fingers
• outrigger splint
• prednisone
• deformities replacments

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Jedmon01, as in all the videos, I explain each person is completely different. They told me 6 weeks in a splint, but it ended up being 12. I am so glad your wife is doing well.

Shazzqsong, talk to your surgeon & dr in advance about pain treatment. I was given percocet, did not take much. Went to vicodin soon. But I did try to stop the pain before it started so I wouldn't flare totally out of control in my whole body like in the past. When they say take very 4 hours, do that the first few days.

[245800A]

what if you hit someone with it?

like in a fight?

[TheChillFly]

Im not the one to troll but god damn this bitch is ugly

[shazzqsong]

I may have surgery to lengthen one of my fingers which will involve gradual lengthening of the bone with a metal fixture and then wearing a splint afterwards. Im absolutely dreading it. Was there a lot of pain ?

[hothobbluesjam]

It is three months since my wifes surgery and her life is back to normal. She has thrown me out of the kitchen, ( thank God ), and is doing all the normal jobs around the house. The only restriction at the moment is liflting heavy weights. She wears the splint at night.

[jedmon01]

If your living in the UK please don't take too much notice of this video. My wife had 4 new joints 4 weeks ago at Huffield Hospital by Mr Sood. She has one simple splint which she wore 24 hours for the first 4 weeks. She now only wears it at night. Her exercises consist of removing the plastic splint each hour and doing a 2 minute exercise. She now has no splint during the day only for protection at night. She wears a foam sling for protection when out.