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i into 4 weeks recovering yet from knee surgery. Progress is slow, muscle is bad every day, i walk 15 min every hour every day (my 4th day now) i get discouraged every day, it seems progress is too slow. i still can’t bend my knee to a 90 degree angle! night time is the worst, i’m not sleeping well, very uncomfortable. any help is needed
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beanie430 lorraine58772
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I don't have any advice for you Lorraine, but I had lateral partial men surgery in april 2016. At that stage we lived in a remote rural community, with any services being over 100km away so I understand & feel your frustration. I will say county life heals all in the end though x Hang in there & all the best with your recovery x
CHICO_MARX lorraine58772
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This seems odd.......
Before my TKR almost two years ago, I had four knee scopes in my 50's, two each side, for torn menisci and ripped off femoral condyle cartilages. I ALL cases, I had the op on a Friday, elevated and iced over the weekend and was back at work on Monday with a portable Cryo-Cuff for a few days. No rehab; complete recovery in a week or two. I've never heard of a meniscus tear repair impacting anyone's range of motion.
Yes, with a TKR, it's a year long recovery, lots of work to get the ROM back to 0 / +120...but a meniscus repair? What exactly did the doc do to you???
PS: If you are actually having ROM issues, these exercises for TKR patients might be helpful...
https://patient.info/forums/discuss/tkr-rom-work-at-home-620053
beanie430 CHICO_MARX
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i was told physio is vial for recovery after meniscus surgery. My ROM was grossly impacted, physio & ortho told me it was very common hence vital regular physio. I was also told that full recovery from my surgery would depend on my healing, resting & physio but 6-8 weeks could be achievable so, with your short recovery phase
& no rehab i'm curious CHICO MARX, did any of your previous four knee injuries contribute to the TKR?
CHICO_MARX beanie430
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Forty-five years of playing hockey totally caused everything. Four knee scopes, a TKR, a metal right hip plus four spine surgeries (two fusions) and two shoulder impingements. See the picture. I'm the TSA's worst nightmare at the airport. They're turning me into a Terminator!!!
Yes, the four knee scopes removed a lot of cartilage and left me with a bone-on-bone situation plus growing arthritis...which, like rust, never sleeps. This was in my early to mid-50's. As it got worse, the doc started the Synvisc injections; a set of 3 over 15 days kept me completely pain free for up to a year at a time for over 5 years. In 2010, I moved from cold New Jersey to very warm Texas. To my surprise, I needed zero shots for the next five years. Then the pain started to return and my only option was a TKR in March of '16.
For those four knee scopes, I needed absolutely nothing in terms of rehab or a long recovery. I was back to work in a matter of days, iced for a few more and that was it. Even got back on my skates with no problem. Maybe I'm the odd one...after all those years skating and playing hockey, I have incredibly strong legs and a ton of muscle memory...even now at 70. Maybe that's what did it for me. My PT was stunned a while back that at 14-months post-TKR, I was climbing stairs two at a time with ease. I could very well be the outlier on the statistical table but that's what happened to me. PS: I also rehabbed the hip in six weeks instead of six months and two shoulder impingement scopes in three weeks each. I guess I'm a rehab freak and take it uber-seriously. The problem is that you can push hips and shoulders while knees are in a league of their own. A TKR takes a year...period. No one can rush that.