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Bilateral TKR with scar tissue in one knee

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patty62273
patty62273

Hello, it will be a year on June 7 that I had both knees replaced.  One knee has done very well.  The other knee has the same bend but  there is scar tissue that almost feels like a tight hot wire wrapped around my knee.  My surgeon keeps saying, give it time. I don't understand how one leg did great, and the other didn't. Has any one had trouble with scar tissue that eventually did go away. I am right at a year!  This is getting old.  My doctor also said that out of the 6,000 knee replacements he has done, he has only had to remove scar tissue from 24.  Thanks for any info you can give. 

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  • marilyn10235
    marilyn10235 patty62273

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    Hi Patty, if it's defo scar tissue, get yourself a good sports injury masseur/masseuse.

    Do you still massage your kne & surrounding tissue? If you use the pads of your fingers & press you should be able to feel where the scar tissue is, it will feel different & kind of knotty!

    You will also need to do the bend exercises you had when you were discharged from hospital.

    A good masseur will feel the knotty scar tissue & may be able to start to shift it. Allied with the exercises!

    Give it a go, what have you got to lose??

    Marilyn 

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