Outpatient post-operative rehabilitation guidelines

UW Health Rehabilitation Services helps you get back to doing the things that are important to you and helps you prevent and overcome chronic pain, re-injury or disability.

For the wrist and forearm

• Four-corner fusion and PRC protocol (pdf)

• Kienböck's disease: Conservative (pdf)

• TFCC central tear — Surgical debridement (pdf)

• TFCC peripheral tear — Surgical repair (pdf)

• Ulnar shortening

  • Ulnar shortening: Darrach surgery (pdf)

  • Ulnar shortening: Osteotomy surgery (pdf)

For the shoulder

• Total shoulder arthroplasty and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (pdf)

For the hands and fingers

• EPL/APL/EPB repair — Early active protocol zones 2-5 (pdf)

• Extensor tendon repair

  • Zones VII-VIII: Extensor tendon repair (pdf)

  • Zones IV-VI: Extensor tendon repair (pdf)

• Flexor pollicis longus repair (pdf)

• Flexor tendon

  • Flexor tendon staged repair (pdf)

  • Flexor tendon zones 1-3 early active motion (EAM) (pdf)

  • Flexor tendon zones 1-3 Modified Duran passive (pdf)

  • Zone IV-V: Flexor tendon repair (pdf)

• MPJ arthroplasty, extensor tendon repositioning or reconstruction (pdf)

• Opponensplasty (pdf)

• Pseudo-Boutonniere conservative treatment (pdf)

• Sagittal band

  • Sagittal band treatment: Conservative (pdf)

  • Sagittal band repair (pdf)

• Thumb CMC joint arthroplasty (pdf)

• Thumb extension tendon transfer (pdf)

• Thumb UCL

  • Thumb UCL injury: Conservative (pdf)

  • Thumb UCL repair: Conservative (pdf)

  • Thumb UCL repair: Early mobilization (pdf)

• Trigger finger: A1 pulley release (pdf)

• Zone I: Mallet finger injury (pdf)

• Zone III: Central Slip Repair (pdf)

For the elbow

• Distal biceps

  • Distal biceps repair early mobilization (pdf)

  • Distal biceps tendon repair — Bledsoe (pdf)