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its 15 weeks now having TKR then 11weeks after mulipulation . Still walking with a limp but working on that . I feel will I ever walk without a limp .need my life back and get back to work and enjoy walking,dancing ,and riding my bike, Just feeling low need to get back to normal .
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lesley67451
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PhysioShaun lesley67451
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The biggest factors for walking without a limp are regaining full extension with lots of knee hangs and some gentle stretching and improving weight bearing tolerance with one leg balance exercises if possible
CHICO_MARX lesley67451
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"There's no crying in baseball." - Tom Hanks, A League of Their Own
"There's no crying after a TKR." - Forum Oracles
Well...yes there is. I was a mess for the first few weeks...falling out of bed...writhing in pain...drooling all over myself. My wife called a rehab place and unceremoniously shipped me out. I don't even remember the ride. I have a very high tolerance to opioids to even 10mg of Percocet plus 10mg of Flexeril barely touched the pain. It was such a wonderful time...think I'll do it again. Oh wait...I HAVE TO do it again!!! One more knee to go. I'd rather "eat the gun"...as my daughter said after her bout with cancer. Looking forward to it? Yeah, like a six-month continuous colonoscopy.
But when you look at it from a different angle, we're way better off than amputees, dirt farmers in Bangladesh and homeless vets on the street in cardboard boxes. Not much...but still better off. Because for us...
THIS IS ALL TEMPORARY!!!!!!!!!
We get to get better and live normal lives again. THEY CAN'T!!! Just remember that and be thankful that we have the medical technology to fix something that 100 years ago would have put us in a wheelchair for the rest of our lives.
Next time you want to cry or have a "bad day", let it out...then pause and think about how lucky we all are to be better than we were...to take this opportunity to find a strength in ourselves that we may not have thought we had.
Is is easy? Of course not. But nothing worthwhile in life ever is...and this is worth it. Buckle up...