 Hello again! It is quite common people ask me that after a hip or knee replacement, how long is it that we need to take rest or how long is it that we need to take physiotherapy. It is a common notion that you will have to get somebody at home to start moving after an operation and intensely so while you take time off work or your routine activities for the first one one and a half months. Now with our techniques of enhanced recovery that we've talked earlier at our specialist centre, at the time of discharge that we send you home in about five days we will be giving you a chart like this. You will be very intensely doing exercises under supervision twice a day and almost 100% of you would have achieved walking up and down stairs with a stick. At least 60-70% of our patients use this on their own and continue exercises on their own at home without any help. It is the complicated ones or people who have that invent fear who require additional help which we often arrange for you. When you follow up in the OPD, it does take 2-3 months to get rid of scar sensitivity in knees or even shorter than that in hips. We give you exercise charts like this where you can follow up as well. The real getting back to quality of life however starts in the phase after that when we have not the conventional physiotherapist but an expert who assesses gait and balance. I will get my colleague Dr. Bishwaran Jandas to tell you more about this.