Goal Setting After Surgery...

Goal setting provides you with a road map…a plan. I contemplated this preparing for my first hip replacement. After surgery, recovery may seem so far away. Your surgeon, physical therapist, and other medical providers are watching your progress and expecting you to regain strength and return to a more normal state at a certain pace. By staying goal-oriented, you help to set an expectation of what lies ahead week by week or month by month (1).

Questions to ask yourself: 6 Months Post-Op

Are you mending as well as expected? Are you following your physical therapy orders and exercising as directed? How nutritious are your meal plans? Don’t forget, our bodies mend much more quickly with proper fuel. Eat Well! Are you managing your inflammation as well as you possibly can? Hold yourself accountable. Most importantly…where would you like to be in another 6 months? Make a plan!

The success of your recovery and achieving your health goals is in your hands. Your surgeon, nurses, physical therapist, and other medical professionals can only do so much…the rest is up to you.

Need an advocate or wellness coach in your corner? Contact me! tiffany@andersontherapeutics.com

Be Well! ~Tiffany

(1) Excerpt, Butternut to Bionic: A Resource Guide for Hip Replacement Surgery, by Tiffany Anderson, LMT, RMT, BS CHES, pg. 93

A goal properly set is halfway reached. - Zig Ziglar

A goal properly set is halfway reached. - Zig Ziglar