A clear reference can make your home exercise instructions easier to follow. This free guide brings together demonstration photos, movement cues, a place for your PT to record your exercise dose, and a simple motion tracker.
Download the free Early Knee Replacement Motion Guide · 5-page PDF
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Who it is for
Adults after a primary total knee replacement whose treating team has approved the movements. Bring it to your PT appointment so your therapist can confirm the exercises, motion targets, and dosing for you. It is not an ACL, meniscus-repair, fracture, revision-surgery, or tendon-repair protocol.
Inside the guide
• Heel slides, quad sets, and assisted seated knee motion with original photos.
• Supported knee straightening.
• A separate PT-directed bag-of-rice stretch option when straightening remains limited.
• Clear symptom precautions and a progress tracker.
Start with your own plan
Your surgeon’s restrictions and your PT’s instructions take priority. The guide leaves weight, hold time, frequency, and progression for your treating clinician to select. The weighted stretch is an optional progression, not a routine starting exercise for everyone.
By Benjamin Harris, DPT · Updated October 26, 2026. Educational information to accompany supervised rehabilitation; not an individual treatment prescription.
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