Do you know how long I can wait on the MUA? Aren’t they more likely to be successful if done early on?
I was told MUAs can be done anytime. They are only successful if you have actual adhesions, no matter when they are done.
I need to try to do everything I can to try help my situation. I just wish I knew what to do.
At only 10 weeks, and only 3 weeks after an injury, you need more time to heal, even without that injury 3 weeks ago. Take plenty of time to rest and elevate and don’t overdo. Try to relax and let Time do its thing. Balance that with gentle activity.
I fell the day after this past Christmas and landed on my replaced knee, on a hard wood floor. My knee, and leg all the way down to my ankle, swelled up quite a bit. I’m guessing my ROM was way less than 90. It took 2 full months to be relatively back to my normal. This was just from a fall, no surgically induced trauma, like post op joint replacement has. So, it’s no wonder it takes a year to recover from all the surgical trauma our knee/leg suffers.
I did no ROM exercises, just whatever daily activities I could manage. As my leg healed, the swelling went down, I was able to do more. It was as simple as that!
Try to stop stressing out over your knee. You still have a long way to go. Towards the end of my first year I read a post from a member here who said, “stop worrying and just get on with your life.” I printed it out and kept it where I could see it. It was hard at times, but that’s what I’ve done, and it got easier as time went by, and what helps my current situation to be as manageable as it is.
Recently I compared this recovery to baking cookies. My chocolate chip cookies take 12 minutes to completely bake. If I take them out earlier, at 2 minutes, 4, 8 or whatever, they will only be partially baked, and not all that tasty, because they’re not done yet.
The same is true of our knee at 2 months, or 3 months, etc. It needs time to finish healing.