Knee stiffness

I dont understand his logic!

Neither do I but I'm sure he knew what he meant.  At least he says it wil limprove in a few months.Hope so as planning to drive round Europe for the summer and it won't be very good if I can't walk around those wonderful cities. I was amazed to find my bend was 120, thought it had got stuck.

hi carol ... of course i am not your surgeon but i think i understand what he meant.  think of it like this: you start going to the gym after a long long time of being a couch spud.  what do you get?  a very, very sore body!  your muscles are aching like crazy.  why do you get this?  well, you have pulled, stretched and slightly damaged your muscles in lots of tiny, tiny tears all over.  and you know what they say is the best to cure the muscle soreness?  the hair of the dog!  do more exercise.  in essence, that is what we are doing to our knee and the ligaments / muscles around it every day ... we are pushing it to its limit.  every night the body tries to heal and every morning we are stiff.  and every day it gets a little better as the body remembers what happened the day before.  does this make sense?

Britta you should be my surgeon cause you explained it so well. Did an extra hard swim today and the back crawl really pulled around the knee. But that was ok. Now I'm suffering badly. However tomorrow all will be well. I think this explains the roller coaster ride that so many have mentioned over the months. Understanding is half the battle. Good luck in hospital.

Yes, that makes sense, Britta. I'm finding that other muscles are starting to play up too now that I'm doing more. I was so pleased with myself the other day striding out down the hill from our house to catch a bus then striding up to come back. But the following day my quad muscles in both legs were so sore! You'd swear I'd run a marathon 😊 Jen x

I have had a problem with sciatica overnight after extending my swimming. Haven't suffered from that for a few months so other muscles are coming back into use. Back to the stretching exercises.

Do the stretching exercises work? I'm getting trouble with sciatic nerve pain and doing stretches a few times a day but it's still playing up. 

To be honest Jennifer the only thing that really helps my sciatica is my osteopath but I work on the exercises anyway. it's telling that I didn't have much of a problem with it for the last 12 months because I just couldn't do much. Now I'm getting my life back the sciatica is back. Win some lose some.

haha!  10 out of 10 for doing all the swimming you do.  that can't be bad, surely?  back crawl?  good god, i have never done that in all my life. you must be super fit!

Hi Britta it was living in Greece for years, calm warm seas etc, that improved my swimming. Couldn't do a back crawl until I was 60. Now I only have a pool but at least it's warm. I used to be fit, lots of mountain walking especially but that's what damaged my knees in the first place. Just can't win.

Hi there, great to hear you could swim so well after your Tkr... Ive had both knees replaced over past two years. I had so much pain beforehand there's no way I could attend a gym. I started swimming 6 months after 2nd knee was done and now swim 50 x 25metres 3 times a week purely for exercise. My knees are still painful and l still require painrelief everyday but maintain the exercise.... I'm only 57 female is anyone else experiencing pain so long after operations???