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    TKR Not having enough ROM

    Thanks Layla. I started back to work Monday. Just four hour shifts. So far so good. Still sore if and sore. Just waiting for that to go away. Thanks for checking in. :)
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    TKR Knee recovery 2024

    Hi everyone. I wanted to ask about Voltaren. I saw some really old threads on it but would like something more recent. I cannot take anti inflammatories but can use Voltaren gel. Besides my tkr I also Had a severe valgus deformity corrected. The outside ligaments were tight and inside...
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    TKR Knee recovery 2024

    Yea she uses a litterbox. She was super easy to train. Never had an accident. Of course a few Balls escape every now and Then lol
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    TKR Knee recovery 2024

    No I haven’t gone back yet. I go back April 22. Sitting would be worse. I went to a movie and could hardly get back to the car. My knee seems to freeze in the bent position. I’ve had a virus so haven’t been up much for a few days. We have the grandson (2) this weekend. So I still need a...
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    TKR Knee recovery 2024

    Thank you Layla ! I hope we have warm weather. I was hoping my knee wouldn’t be stiff and sore at this point but have decided to roll with it. It will do what it’s gonna do lol. Have a great weekend !!! :SUNsmile:
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    TKR Knee recovery 2024

    She’s doing great. Thanks for asking. When she wants a treat she comes to the French door and scratches or thumps. I like that I can sit in the living room and watch her play.
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    TKR Knee recovery 2024

    Hey everyone. I went to my 8 week checkup today. My X-ray was fine. We talked about the PT. The dr said my range of motion was fine. He didn’t measure just looked and that found back to PT was up to me but I could strengthen at home. I told him how stiff and sore I still was at 8 weeks...
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    TKR ROM #'s by week - examples please?

    Hi again. I am at week seven now and basically had to stop PT. I felt after every session I was getting a little bit worse. Like goinf backwards. By the time I would get in good shape again it was time to go back so it was Like I wasn’t progressing. My overall daily pain was worse. I...
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    Knee Scars - Post Your Badges of Honor Here! NO CHIT-CHAT please

    7 weeks
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    TKR New knee success !

    I’ve talked to my husband, and we’ve decided I will skip my second PT this week. I just don’t feel that I should be getting worse each week. I am doing weight machines and also extending from the knee with a heavy ankle weight on. I think that is maybe too much. Weeks ago I could pop up in...
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    TKR New knee success !

    I want to be you. I will be seven weeks Thursday. Still painful stiff and swollen. Please trade with me. I’m a 60 year old woman. But I do have a good left knee and you will be two years younger. lol. I hope you get my humor. You are very blessed. I am too just at a slower rate. Good...
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    TKR Knee recovery 2024

    I did do a few register shifts after my hip replacement. I’m used To working on painful limbs but I will have them phase me back in like last time. 20,25,30,35,40 hours. That gives me some extra weeks to get my stamina back. Also I can ice on break with my leg up in the lunch room. I’ve...
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    TKR Knee recovery 2024

    That’s what the husbands for lol. Perfect timing when I don’t have to do it by myself. I will only be doing door fronts and drawer fronts laid flat on the bar haha. The picture below is where I painted them about 5 years ago. Top is sort of cream. Bottoms a sagey green. I’m going for a...
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    TKR Knee recovery 2024

    @ladyj Hi Jess. Happy to see you doing well. I feel your pain with bad weather. We had a week in the 70s then it turned cold again. It’s supposed to be 79 by the end of the week. I’ve seen people much older than me zooming around church at the point I’m at. I thought I would be less sore...
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    TKR Knee recovery 2024

    I am so sorry. I did not see this post. Your family sounds wonderful. How did your surgery go. I hope you are well. I am lucky. So far everything in the left side is fine. Please let me know how you are progressing Shawn
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