The patients are able to stand up and walk the same day of surgery depending upon how the patient’s rehab. They may be able to go up and down stairs even the first day of surgery. Most patients are able to go up and down stairs within a few days of having surgery. When walking up and down, my advice is- “good goes to heaven and bad goes to hell!” This means that while walking upstairs patients should use the nonoperative extremity and while walking downstairs they should put their operated extremity forward.