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Bend on tkr

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shona18872
shona18872

I’m in week 4 after my tkr and getting quite worried about the bend. It’s only about 20degrees. I did have a slight infection in the wound and just finished antibiotics. All clear now. I can walk short distances with one stick or without. It’s just my exercises with the bend. It’s just so stiff! 

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  • Snoozy69
    Snoozy69 shona18872

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    Hi Shona I hired a cpm machine for 4 weeks to help with my flexion it may be worth considering. Just keep doing your range of movement exercises, rest, ice and elevate afterwards. Don't worry about strengthening exercises just yet ROM are definitely more important X 

  • nwf477
    nwf477 shona18872

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    Most hospitals around here stopped using the CPM machine I loved it got comfortable put my leg on it and let it do all the work. Now they do a more hands on approach.Whether its the therapist massaging your knee and then start gently bending it before giving it that final push to see how far it can be bent. As far as doing it with out the maching heel slides sitting on a chair ( like a dining room chair ) and straighten your leg out and with your heel on the floor slide it as far back as you, another sit on a table with your knee over the edge and try and bend your knee as far back as you can. Compared to the CPM these are hard.
  • Irish_Al
    Irish_Al shona18872

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    Apparently it's a machine doing the work rathe than one's muscles. I loved it for three sessions a day for the first 3 days in hospital then it was stopped. I would fall asleep during it, maybe it was the drugs.

    Read heel slides and other exercises there are some good Youtube videos.

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