Mhroamers
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Look back at Susieshoes post, month 2-4 is the hardest. Very true and accurate. It takes while for muscles to regain strength. Your physical therapist is being hard on you, ask him how many total knee patient he has treated with all your other issues. He should be treating ALL of you! Bilateral plantar fasciitis , nerve compression in your back. I have had them all before. As for sleep, this is what I did. Only a suggestion: I mentally set my self, there is 24 hours in a day, when I slept , I slept , when I was a awake, I was awake, it didn’t matter. I was not any any schedule. My baby knee converted me to a baby ! You will recovery, and be fine!
Thank you Mutti3. My Physio is very experienced and is trying all sorts of things. He isn’t pushing me too far I don’t believe and just gives me things to do that I can handle. I only see him once a week or once a fortnight as he is very expensive. Can I ask how you dealt with the plantar fasciitis and the nerve root compression? I’m icing my feet, using an iced golf ball abs my hubby is massaging feet every night plus I’m wearing insets. It’s been 4 weeks since it started ‘again’ and no improvement. Physio is only treating swelling and pain in knee and there is never enough time to treat anything else in 1/2 hour.
It’s okay to rant. You’re feeling frustrated with your recovery, and in pain, so have every reason to rant.
It is early days, yes, but a visit to the surgeon sounds like a good idea. He can make certain the implant is in good working order and maybe adjust your physio. To me it sounds like you may be doing way too much activity. Pool work 5-6 days a week is a lot. Is this pool work what you are doing with your physio, or is that in addition? What do you do on your own at home?
I think the question is whether your problem is one of pain and swelling, or one of strength only. If your knee is swelling and painful, and that’s what is causing you not to be able to walk well, then you need to rest the knee until it can function better. You would be treating the swelling in that case by resting, icing, and elevating the leg. If the problem is weakness, though, you might need a different kind of therapy.
Did you try resting more and doing less exercise (no physio) for a few weeks to see if that made your knee happier? It could very well be that your knee is simply overworked. That can happen. After all, it’s tempting to think that if a little exercise isn’t getting the job done, more might do the trick. Physical therapists often have this view, too, and it can be difficult to push back and say, “I’ll just rest the knee.”
Thanks SusiesShoes, it was my choice to go to pool so often as it made me feel good to be weightless, and being able to walk in a pool without collapsing was wonderful. The pool is now closed for maintenance and it will be interesting to see if I will improve. I really don’t do that much exercising Susie, I work 2-3 hours broken up into 2session at my desk and I do the occasional exercises as I think of it. I haven’t tried doing nothing as I feel it will make things worse (My body is incredible stiff when only resting for 5 mins and needs a while to unstiffen when I get up out of the chair). I am icing, elevating and also massaging as much and often as possible. Strength in my knee is quite reasonable (he tested it yesterday) and he is simply baffled as to why I wobble so much and the knee jerks backward.