trouble with knee extension

My daughter is making me a potion of essentials oils that she swears by but I will email you the name of a commercially available product....they will zap if I name it here😕

Roma

I had both knees done in Jan same time.my scars are straight and they look good I use coconut oil like 4 times a day.I use it for everything. It really good to whiten your teeth too I brush with it everday. Hope it helps.

I had staples after my TKR in January and I've been using bio oil.

My scar is just one thin line and fading each week x

Gentle rub with vitamin e oil...

I've being using vaseline, it was suggested by one of the nurses in the hospital, she said it does the same as bio oil and a lot cheaper, my scar is fading really well

Hi, after my first PKR year and a half ago, that scar looks good. Fortunately, glue was used for that and the vitamin E twice daily. Now my three month old TKR had staples so is not as pretty yet. My dermatologist suggested that silicon works better. My PT agreed but that it's more expensive than vE. My brother in law used cocoa butter. I think it all works. Get the skin soft and flexible and massage across the scar. And time! 

So long as the scar does not stretch too much the staple scars as well as the main scar will fade.  For the time being look on them as beauty marks.

The pool is a great idea.  Try sitting in the bath (mineral salts in the water will help your skin). Then you can point your heel to the end of the bath, toes towards your head and push the knee down towards the bottom of the bath.  The water will support you, so if the pain is too much, just stop and allow your leg to float.Doing exaggerated heel & toe exercises will help; as you go from heel to toe, just pause awhile on your toes before moving on to the other foot.  As you go through this movement try keeping your knee as straight as possible.

Here is something that worked for me to help improve my extension. Sit in a chair with your leg extended in front of you, placing your foot on another chair or a stool. Take a small plastic bag and put something in it that weighs a pound or two (I used a five pound weight but that's me). Hang the bag from your extended leg, just above the scar area. Now the weight will be slowly drawing your knee down into a straighter position via gravity. Try to hold this position for two minutes, gradually increasing the weight and/or time elements as you can tolerate. This helped my extension greatly.

i use bi oil  or an E is fantasic too .dont worry about the scsars as long as your knee is ok thats all that matters .ive had mine opened 3 times but its healing well i wont e worrying about the scar my days for worrying about that are over .

like you since my revision my extension is not as good as it should be weird because i had to have a revision for lack of bend my knee then was dead straight and now bend has improved some what but straight not so good .my advice work hard very hard !!! mine will never be straight now but yours is early days keep stretching it put a weight on it while you put your foot up on a chair in front of you with the knee between both chairs put a weight in a bag not too heavy and let it hang from the knee it will pull it down do it often its hard at first but keep doing it good luck