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I've just been reading that you shouldn't use footstools following THR! I use one for most of the time when I'm sitting - wondered what other people's views are on this????? Maybe that's why I still get pins and needle effect???? It never occurred to me not to use one !
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I have been keeping my feet up, either on the coffee table or on a footstool under my computer desk, since a few days after I got home. The hospital staff never told me about the 90 degree rule; I read about it on here after a few weeks. So I have just been doing whatever makes me feel more comfortable. In the early days, when I used the coffee table as a footrest, I always lay back a bit on the sofa anyway so wasn't breaking the rule and most of the time don't break it on the footstool as it's back near the wall, rather than close to my chair.