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    Long term skiing report

    Just had to tell someone. Had my 5 year checkup with my replacement after skiing roughly 300 days and 4 million vertical feet. Skiing all terrain but not skiing aggressively. On xrays no appreciable wear on replacement knee. Bad news is on the standing xray orthopod said my other natural...
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    Mountain Hiking

    I was once riding a ski lift with an orthopaedic surgeon. When he heard I had a replacement knee he said he would never tell a patient of his he could ski. I asked him if it was because of excess wear. He said no. His concern was how much trouble it was if you ever broke the leg in the area...
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    Mountain Hiking

    I don't know about recomended, but I spend a lot of time hiking the rockies. Published intermediate trails mostly 5 miles a hike usually. I use a hiking poles. Downhill does bother my replacement knee more than uphill. Steep stuff I do sideways. I think the problem might be the sliding back...
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    Kneeling - CPR

    I am 3 years from a TKR. I am a mountain volunteer at Vail in Colorado. We need to be CPR certified every two years. Two years ago it took me a while to kneel but once I got down there I could do the CPR. In class there is no requirement to be able to kneel quickly. So take your time...
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    Has this happened to anyone else?

    Thank you for this thread sounds amazingly similar to my problem 3.5th year since TKR. Exercise a lot (eliptical machines, stairs.....) all of a sudden pain at front of patella with exercise, stiffness going down stairs when I first get up. Seems to go away with rest, come back with extended...
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    5½ weeks post LTKR - questions

    Re: firm areas around knee? I'm wondering whether the hard spot around your thigh isn't some bruising from the tournequit you likly had on your lower thigh during surgery.
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    How severe was your knee?

    Yes. As your knees get more arthritic they tend to get out of alignment (you get more knock-kneed or bow-legged). The art of TKR surgery is to remove just enough of the bone in a wedge shape usually such that the bones will be in a proper alignment when the prosthesis is installed. The doc...
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    When you say you no longer have pain...

    Its been three years and my knee is still stiff when I wake up in the morning and first go down the stairs to make coffee in the morning. I don't know if that is a TKR issue or being a 60something issue. The question I think you are really asking is do you ever reach a point where you...
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    TKR Looking forward to skating again

    I know exactly what you are hoping for. I gave up reffing before my TKR because I couldn't back out of things fast enough and kept getting in the way. Reffed a couple of years after TKR and things were better than ever, then I just grew weary of the mental fortitude necessary to be a good ref...
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    What's your workout routine?

    I remember an incredible sense of accomplishment being able to go once around on the stationary bike.
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    Rasamee Is Going backwards--losing ROM!

    Re: How about the elliptical? I have found that using an elliptical in one of the "cross training" modes where you do the thing in reverse can be a bit uncomfortable because it caused me to clunk.
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    Airport Pat-Down

    There is an interesting difference in philosophy between US and Europe. In the US you are pretty much expected to confess that you will set off the scanner and want a pat down. If you fail the scanner you are suspect and I think treated a little worse. At Heathrow and the other places in...
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    School me on pain meds

    Forgot to say: don't be afraid of opiates. Many people say "Oh my god there is an opium in lortab, and I'm afraid of getting addicted". But the bottme line is if your in pain there is nothing much better than an opiate and its a lot harder to become addicted than the press seems to want you to...
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    School me on pain meds

    The problem with all pain meds is there is the desired effect necessarily has to be weighed against the side-effects. I would worry a bit about the amount of acetimenophen you are taking since its both in the direct pills and in the lortab. It is really hard on your liver especially if there...
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    Airport Pat-Down

    I get used to it. The reason you can't touch your stuff is because you could carry a bomb into the glassed off area and then put it in your luggage before you got patted down. If you are embarassed being groped in public they always have a private area they can do the nasty in available. I'm...
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    Big Step for me, now big question?

    Actually there are bunches of people who've been through here have had their lives given back to them. One of the reasons you don't hear much about it is that after six months of rockiness, their lives are no longer governed by their knees. We're too busy living the lives we wanted to live but...
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    Is it safe to fly at 7 weeks post-op?

    I would think no problem. Problem is the NY-SFO flight which has you sitting for 5 hours. NY - DC is probably 60 min of sitting and the only issue is being up at 8000 feet (this is where airliners are presurized to). I would get an aisle seat with our operated knee in the aisle so you can...
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    Wearing out symptoms

    It's mostly that whenever you feel a new pain or stiffness in a replacement knee you immediatly think it has something to do with the prosthesis. I did all this fretting and it was patellar tendonitis from overuse. The same thing every runner with natural knees gets, but I was in "Oh C**p"...
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    Wearing out symptoms

    Mines only 3 years old, but I do have 270 days of hard skiing on it.
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    Wearing out symptoms

    This is way down the road for me, but occasionally I wake up with a new ache and pain in the morning and it got me to wondering "So what does it feel like when you start wearing out your prosthesis"?

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