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    TKR Post Op, Starting Week 6: what to do about continuing with PT

    @Jamie @Layla @benne68 @sistersinhim YES! I’m dehydrated, the nutrition part is not being tended to well and overdoing. Taking a break right now. I read all of your responses this morning and it really helped a lot. obviously, dealing with anxiety and worry. Overthinking which leads to...
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    TKR Post Op, Starting Week 6: what to do about continuing with PT

    Hey! Need some perspective. Week 10. post-op OK, why is my knee in so much pain NOW? Am I still supposed to be taking painkillers… I don’t think so. Tender, remains warm-hot feeling always. Feel nauseous/flushed. All seems tied to doing more. Pushing through pain as I go downstairs...
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    TKR Post Op, Starting Week 6: what to do about continuing with PT

    Thank you so much! I really appreciate the validation. After I wrote last night responding to you and @Layla and for others to learn from our experiences… I fell asleep. I was awakened by a deep pain, deep aching in my leg muscles . Quads muscles mostly. I was awakened multiple times thinking...
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    TKR Still working on ROM

    Oh my gosh. Now I feel like an idiot (like when I go to PT) . @Flashcat I just welcomed you to the club and congratulated you on your TKR. Oh boy!!! I’m messaging all this from my phone and somehow the dates got mixed up… I just saw the headline for your thread that said “Struggling a...
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    TKR Still working on ROM

    Same!!!! so you wanna go somewhere this weekend? Are you kidding me… This was when I was at two weeks. Does anybody know what’s going on? Lol.
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    TKR Still working on ROM

    Ooh, I’m so sorry about the past medical trauma being reactivated. Yep! This will do it. I realize that’s my resistance toward PT as well. Judgment that ties to early childhood trauma that was reactivated. People pleasing behavior. I mean I’m a 57-year-old woman and I’m concerned about what a...
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    TKR Still working on ROM

    Welcome, welcome to the club @Flashcat .:meow: Congratulations on tackling your TKR. It’s so good that you found BoneSmart (and that it exists). :happyfeet: They have given me a whole other way to consider healing. I had been in Facebook groups preop, postop tkr groups before. In 2022 that...
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    TKR Post Op, Starting Week 6: what to do about continuing with PT

    Thank you so much, Layla! I saw your message last week and it made me feel great. I feel I’m doing well. Walking my dog, Holly 2 to 3 times a day for 10 minute walks, going to the dog park with her, (she’s an older gal, Holly, so the dog park isn’t the best actually cause she mostly lies down...
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    TKR Post Op, Starting Week 6: what to do about continuing with PT

    Hello, hi there! So lovely of you to check in and say, also, “no judgment either .” I did decided to return to physical therapy. I went last week. 2 month mark. I wanted feedback about how I was walking, my range of motion, and advice about going downstairs. Up the stairs is fine. Well...
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    Welcome to the June Sunbeams 2025 Knee Recovery Club

    Welcome!
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    TKR Post Op, Starting Week 6: what to do about continuing with PT

    Hello TKR Friends & Bonesmart Staff, Having the same internal struggle with to go or not to go to PT as I did when I did my Left knee. I. Just. Don’t. Want. To. Go. Orders were for 2 x week for six weeks. I missed three sessions the last 2-3 weeks. Steady first 3 weeks. However, that wasn’t...
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    Welcome to the June Sunbeams 2025 Knee Recovery Club

    Hi there. R TKR 6/18/2025 (L TKR 11/28/2022)
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