hhhooray
junior member
- Joined
- Apr 25, 2022
- Messages
- 79
- Age
- 63
- Country
- Colombia
- Gender
- Male
Hey there, I saw your concern about the cane. I had to go back and look, and I used mine until week 11. Your recovery takes what it takes and I'm sure everyone here will tell you, this is not a competition, it's not race. It's your body, it's going to heal as it heals and there is no one timeline for everyone. Less is more, tell the PT people you won't stand to be pressured, you've enough to deal with.I’m a day past 4 weeks anterior LTHR. I used a walker for about 3 weeks (my doctor said 2 weeks were required for me) and then moved to a cane.
Now I’m still using the cane and my physical therapists are telling me I should have already been off it at this point.
I’ve been walking with the cane about 4-5000 steps a day and just trying to slowly increase if it felt good.
I guess I’m questioning myself now.. I felt like I’ve been improving decently since surgery, I could feel my walking was improving pretty well and I felt really positive but they’re saying I’m not locking out my left knee when I walk and that’s my issue causing me to still use the cane - I felt that I still had a limp, so I didn’t want to rush myself off the cane.
I also feel like some of the therapists are pressuring me to do exercises I’m not comfortable with and now I’m questioning if I should have just been sucking it up and doing it despite the pain and swelling it would cause? They’re saying I’m where I’m at with the recovery because I’ve not been pushing myself enough since I’ve been focusing more on walking and not some of the exercises they’ve been prescribing. I don’t know, I have been doing the exercises that weren’t too hard, like the glute and thigh squeezes for instance.
I’m feeling very discouraged about my recovery now.
Listen to the people here, they're exceptional.