ColleenAda
junior member
Ice as long as you want!!! Move it around, stretch, bend, take a walk, grab a snack and the remote and ice some more! After a while, you'll only need ice and no pills--- then nothing
Don't go back to this facility. They will do much more harm to your knee than help it. They are ignorant on how to rehab a tkr!Then the exercises came. Straight leg lifts, squats, etc. I can’t even lift my leg onto the bed or couch. Need hand assistance. And they wanted me to do 30 straight leg lifts. This is a PT place I’ve been going to for over a decade. What am I going to do️️
Well first, don't engage her in any discussion about it. It's none of her business anyway.She said that after 15-20 minutes that our knees/tissues/cells start a response to that coldness and start "warming" up to counteract the coldness, which isn't a good thing. Can someone please explain why that is faulty or at least a what I should say to her in response.
Resting and doing little else is what you need to be doing for at least the first month after a TKR. Your knee has been cut open, had soft tissues pulled aside,had the ends of two large bones sawed and shaped; your kneecap was turned upside down and later put back in its normal position; you've had large foreign bodies hammered and cemented into two large bones, and then everything has been put back in place and your knee has been sewn together again. That's a lot of trauma and your knee needs rest, so it can start to heal.MY BUTT HURTS!! I mean it really hurts. I want to go for a bike ride, or walk around in Target for an hour, or would even settle for cleaning toilets at this point. Surgery was 11 days ago and I’m done laying around. Even said put the old dang knee back in and forget this. I get up, go to bathroom, wander the house, did a load of laundry, even managed to push a sweeper in front of my walker last night. Lol. That was a sight. But restlessness has set in!! Feeling physically pretty good. But oh man, my butt, aches from the sitting around.
What is the title of your thread? Did you call it a marathon (not a sprint) ?Surgery was 11 days ago and I’m done laying around.