Knee Replacement with infection and frozen knee
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I had a knee replacement March 18th.
After my first 2 Pt appointments I had blood in the bandages. I went back to my surgeon and he took the bandages off and looked at my knee. He did not think it was infected but it was definitely not happy. He put me in a brace and on antibiotics. With in a couple of days I ended up in the hospital with an infection. Spent 11 days in the Hospital and underwent several surgeries to clean out the area. After finally getting home I spent the next the next month or so healing the wound over my knee. Then I had a skin graft Taking skin from my thigh to put over my knee.After that healed for a month or so I finally had the brace taken off. I just underwent a knee manipulation And my surgeon was only able to get me to 60 degrees of flexion or bend. I have been able to get back to 50 degrees of bend so far. In addition to PT i am on a knee bending machine for 2 hours every 2 hours all day long. I am having manual work done on my knee daily to try to break through some of this scar tissue. It has been 4 months since my knee replacement. Has anyone experienced anything similar and found anything to help make improvements with the this kind of deep scar tissue? Kim
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