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.