Post-Procedural Instructions:
Bone Marrow Aspiration and Injection
Pain Medications
In most cases local or regional nerve blocks will provide 8-12 hours of numbness.
As soon as you start to feel the numbness wearing off, begin taking oral pain medication.Take Tylenol 500 - 1000mg every 8 hours. DO NOT exceed 3500mg of Tylenol over 24 hours.
Take Aleve (Naproxen) 220mg two tabs (440mg total) every 12 hours with food.
You do not need to take pain medications once you no longer have pain.
Other Medications
Take Zofran as needed for nausea (usually associated with anesthesia).
Activity
You may progress your activity as tolerated.
You may lift or put as much weight as you feel comfortable with on your operative extremity.
Recovery Equipment
You do not need any sling or brace after surgery. We encourage motion as tolerated to prevent stiffness.
Cold Therapy
We recommend cold therapy use as much as possible in the first two weeks.
Cold therapy units may be used continuously as instructed.
Ice packs should be applied 30 minutes at a time, with 30 minutes off between applications.
Do not apply ice directly to the skin to avoid burning.
Recovery Exercises
You may perform all upper or lower extremity exercises as instructed in your preoperative packet.
Your motion goal should be to have complete joint motion at your initial postoperative visit.
Diet: Please refer to your preoperative packet instructions.
Incision Care: Please refer to your preoperative packet instructions.
Emergencies: Please refer to your preoperative packet instructions.