backbay38
graduate
Hi guys!
I woke up this AM and low and behold, there was my ankle -- looking pretty much the way it usually does. As in not swollen!! Can't say the same for my knee, of course, but my PT said yesterday he thought the swelling looked like it had gone down a bit. of course that was BEFORE he went to work bending the hell out of it. He's also using his hand to put resistance on my leg when I raise it and has me using a relatively low-strength rubber band to push-pull my foot (to work my calf muscles and stretch them) and push against resistance when I pull my knee back and push it forward. Not for heavy ROM work -- just strength building. PT says my surgeon does not want a lot of resistance/weight used until the staples come out. But plain leg lifts and extensions etc are light work for me because of my pre-op weight work. I ice after each session and after each of my own exercise, pulling knee sessions. Definitely helps.
I don't know whether I'm looking forward most to getting these pesky staples out ---- or taking a shower!! which will be 24 hours after the staples come out. Doc is VERY conservative in that area -- worrying I guess about latent infection until the staple holes heal up. he puts surgi-strips on the incision and says leaave them until they fall off. How the hell do you pull this stupid anti-clotting stocking up over surgi-strips without ripping them off????
ah the little problems now that the big problem seems to be well on its way to being resolved.
I woke up this AM and low and behold, there was my ankle -- looking pretty much the way it usually does. As in not swollen!! Can't say the same for my knee, of course, but my PT said yesterday he thought the swelling looked like it had gone down a bit. of course that was BEFORE he went to work bending the hell out of it. He's also using his hand to put resistance on my leg when I raise it and has me using a relatively low-strength rubber band to push-pull my foot (to work my calf muscles and stretch them) and push against resistance when I pull my knee back and push it forward. Not for heavy ROM work -- just strength building. PT says my surgeon does not want a lot of resistance/weight used until the staples come out. But plain leg lifts and extensions etc are light work for me because of my pre-op weight work. I ice after each session and after each of my own exercise, pulling knee sessions. Definitely helps.
I don't know whether I'm looking forward most to getting these pesky staples out ---- or taking a shower!! which will be 24 hours after the staples come out. Doc is VERY conservative in that area -- worrying I guess about latent infection until the staple holes heal up. he puts surgi-strips on the incision and says leaave them until they fall off. How the hell do you pull this stupid anti-clotting stocking up over surgi-strips without ripping them off????
ah the little problems now that the big problem seems to be well on its way to being resolved.
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