You have to be careful in water. It's very easy to overdo and the water adds resistance so it's like using weights.Feels great in the water and no pain
You have to be careful in water. It's very easy to overdo and the water adds resistance so it's like using weights.Feels great in the water and no pain
You have to be careful in water. It's very easy to overdo and the water adds resistance so it's like using weights.
Are you asking this on behalf of someone, @pepsicola? I see from your first post that you have a De Puy LCS complete prosthesis, which, I think, is a mobile bearing.Does anyone on our forum have experience of a full constrained knee replacement??
Are you asking this on behalf of someone, @pepsicola? I see from your first post that you have a De Puy LCS complete prosthesis, which, I think, is a mobile bearing.
You're still in the very early stages of this year-long recovery. There's plenty of time for your knee to improve. This recovery is a sort of "two steps forward and one step back" process.
@pepsicola I'm 9 weeks in and still couldn't do a lot of driving and walking. I think the BoneSmart recommendation of at least 12 weeks would be in order for lots of diving and standing.
We usually advise taking about 12 weeks off work and then doing a Phased return to work , if possible. You may need to take even longer for a physically demanding job, so tell your employer "Not yet. I'll let you know, but it depends on my surgeon's decision."my employer is also pushing for an answer on when I’m going back to work? I’m back on crutches today and can’t even think about work just now. My job involves a lot of driving and walking.
I’m a 44 year old female who is 2 weeks post op TKR with an LCS complete prosthesis.
There is a constrained LCS system, but it is more commonly used for Revisions than for primary TKRs. Unless your physio has access to your full surgery notes, she/he can't know what your surgeon did.I’m asking on behalf of myself Celle. My physio had a long chat with today and said it was a full constrained system and my surgeon had purposely not tightened it fully due to my biomechanics.
We usually advise taking about 12 weeks off work and then doing a Phased return to work , if possible. You may need to take even longer for a physically demanding job, so tell your employer "Not yet. I'll let you know, but it depends on my surgeon's decision."
Make sure your surgeon knows you have a job that is physically demanding, so that he/she doesn't release you for work too soon.
There is a constrained LCS system, but it is more commonly used for Revisions than for primary TKRs. Unless your physio has access to your full surgery notes, she/he can't know what your surgeon did.
The best person to ask about the type of prosthesis you have, and why, is your surgeon.
At this early stage of your recovery, it's normal to still have pain in some areas. There's plenty of time for your pain to settle and your knee to improve immensely. Don't start worrying whether the type of implant has any influence on your progress.
I just want to add my voice to those counselling restraint with PT interventions. I suffered a bad injury to my operative knee during a PT session three weeks after my right TKR, doing exercises that were supposed to strengthen my knee muscles, and after a second surgery I am still recovering from that injury. Coincidence or causation, nobody is willing to say, but in retrospect and after learning how many others on this forum have handled their recovery without PT, I do think the objectives of that particular PT program were not well matched to my own abilities at the time. The exercise was a sit to stand and they had also been putting weights on my foot during leg lifts, so I did become alarmed when I read through your thread because you mentioned some of those same things. I think some PT practitioners act more like personal trainers than clinicians, and don't think through variables such as pre-operative functional abilities and personal healing times when crafting a program for people who seek their services. I've attained better range of motion just by using the knee on a daily basis than I ever accomplished with activities such as stationary cycling, and strengthening is gradually coming naturally by just walking. I now go to a smaller private PT center where their approach is more thoughtful and individualized, and what has been helping the most has been actual gait re-training, consciously attending to the motions and mechanics of the walking process broken down step by step. It's been a slow but steady recovery, and this forum is wonderful for those days when you just need a little support. Keep up your good work!
I’m so so grateful to be able to discuss these issues with people who understand the challenges we face on a daily basis. I suppose I underestimated how long and painful a process this was going to be.
I definitely agree with both of those statements. Wish I had spent some time in the recovery threads before surgery, I think I might have been a little more prepared for how much pain and discomfort would follow surgery.
You're only 7 weeks into a recovery that takes a full year. At this early stage, it's normal to still be having pain and swelling.I’m 7 weeks post op tomorrow and still have this pain and slight swelling on the right lateral aspect of my patella.