TKR

Hi Justin

It's still early days do your exercises ice ice regularly and once swelling goes down it will help trust your Physio

I'm 6 wks and nearly there my turning point was around 5 wks you've had major surgery,

Last tip get a exercise bike big benefit not load bearing don't get cold or wet good 4 movement

Good luck

Stay focused

Rob

I'm post op 10 weeks. Still a bit stiff. But have regained full range of motion. Keep doing exercises. You will do fine.

Don't let her push you into pain and be sure and adequately ice afterwards plus.......take pain meds about an hour before you start

Just be careful to not let the physio push you too hard! They can set you back by over aggressively working your knee and you won't be able to walk at all for several days. If it hurts say NO! It's still very early for you. You have plenty of recovery time ahead. Keep icing and elevating and take your pain meds on schedule. Good luck.

3 weeks ia still fairly early I am 6.5 weeks post op and I am in the lower 100's. it really hurts trying to bend the knee but continue your exercises and continue your physical therapy and you will eventually be able to bend your knee more and more.

Hi Justin,

I'm 7 months post TKR op.

I was ar 90/95 degrees for up to 9 weeks, at about 12 week's made it to 105/110. Now no problem at all.

This recovery is a marathon not a sprint.

Don't let any physio or anyone at all push you too hard. You and your body knows best.

I am 56 years old.

Best wishes, Take care,

Alan

This is what I got told by a physio yesterday, " if you broke your tibia and fibia in a fall would it hurt, yes, would you expect to be bending it after two weeks, no, so don't rush it, it will come, you have had a major operation and it will come eventually." Made sense to me as I was obsessing over my range of movement as well as comparing my rate of progress to my other knee. 

Well, it does depend on things like the amount of swelling you have, which will make the bend difficult.  It is important to keep pushing to get as much bend as possible, and it does involve a fair degree of pain . . but it shouldn't involve agony.  some physios will want to push you to that extent, until you scream . . . I had one of those, and I very soon told her to leave me alone, and I continued at my own speed.  I am not in agreement with people who say "We all get there in the end'  Without some effort, we do not all get there, and I do personally know people who have not achieved more than about seventy, because they decided to wait until it didn't hurt. . .but three weeks is very early, and at that stage, I think I had about 60/65 . . .I;ve ended up with 130, without agony, with discomforrt and a degree of pain, yes, but don't let them push you to the extreme.  It's your body!