Joint Replacement Patient Education
Are you ready to take care of that painful joint? Then it's time to learn about how to best prepare for and recover from surgery. Below you'll find important information about:
- How to decide if surgery is right for you
- How to prepare for surgery
- Post-surgery rehabilitation and recovery tips
These education materials help support the best possible outcomes for your procedure. Thank your for taking an active role in your health!
Patient Education Materials
- Getting Ready for Your Joint Replacement Surgery at the Scarborough Surgery Center
- Getting Ready for Your Joint Replacement Surgery at the MMC Bramhall Campus in Portland
- About Your Anterior Hip Replacement (Direct Anterior and Anterolateral)
- About Your Posterior Hip Replacement Surgery
- Deciding about Hip Replacement Surgery
- How to Shower Before Hip Replacement Surgery
- Surgical Dressing Guide
- After Your Posterior Hip Replacement Surgery
- After Anterior Hip Replacement Surgery (Direct Anterior and Anterolateral)
- Getting Ready for Your Joint Replacement Surgery at the Scarborough Surgery Center
- Getting Ready for Your Joint Replacement Surgery at the MMC Bramhall Campus in Portland
- About Total Knee Replacement
- About Your Partial Knee Replacement Surgery
- After Total Knee Replacement Surgery
- After Your Partial Knee Replacement Surgery
- Deciding about Knee Replacement Surgery
- Knee Replacement Preoperative Exercises
- How to Shower Before Joint Replacement Surgery
- Next Day Knee Program
- Surgical Dressing Guide
- Getting Ready for Your Joint Replacement Surgery at the Scarborough Surgery Center
- Getting Ready for Your Joint Replacement Surgery at the MMC Bramhall Campus in Portland
- After Your Shoulder Replacement Surgery
- About Your Shoulder Replacement Surgery
- Deciding about Shoulder Replacement Surgery
- How to Shower Before Shoulder Surgery
- Shoulder Surgical Dressing
Maine Medical Center - Bramhall Campus
22 Bramhall St.
Portland, Maine 04102
Parking
- Patient and visitor parking is available at the Portland Free Garage - 880 Congress Street. The garage elevator signage will guide patients and visitors to enter. Representatives and other staff are available as you enter here, to direct you to your destination.
- Parking is also available at the South Lot — 107 Chadwick Street, Portland. This parking area is convenient for patients and visitors going to radiology, the pharmacy, labs and Maine Medical Partners' outpatient clinics. This lot is closed to entry after 6 p.m. on weekdays and all day on weekends and holidays.\
- Please call our Security and Parking Department at 207-662-2124 with any parking related questions.
Scarborough Surgery Center
84 Campus Drive
Scarborough, ME 04074
Click for directionsor follow the instructions below.
From the North and South
• From the North: take Maine Turnpike (I-95) south to Exit 45.
• From the South: take Maine Turnpike (I-95) north to Exit 45.
• Continue pas the tollbooth and take the 3rd exit for Scarborough/ Old Orchard (US 1 South/ME-9
• You should now be on the Scarborough Connector (see below)
From the West
• Take Route 302 to Forest Avenue in Portland.
• Continue on Forest Avenue to the intersection with I-295.
• Take I-295 South until Exit 2 (U.S. 1 South/Scarborough/Old Orchard).
• You should now be on the Scarborough Connector (see below).
Once on the Scarborough Connector
• Continue onto Route 1.
• Take a left at the first light, onto Hillcrest Avenue and another left onto Campus Drive.
• Follow Campus Drive and turn into 84 Campus Drive on the right.
• Follow signs to the main entrance and parking.
Rehabilitation after Joint Replacement Surgery
A quick and safe return to activity is key to preventing complications after joint replacement surgery. That's why our rehabilitation therapists will start working with you right after surgery, often in your hospital room. They will evaluate you sitting and standing and introduce exercises designed to improve joint mobility and strengthen the surrounding muscles. Muscles are the body's first line of defense, so the stronger your muscles are, the sooner you will recover.