TKR Adhesions and Pain 14 months After L TKR<

[Celle]

By the way, you'll notice that I have merged your newest thread with your original recovery thread. For several reasons, we prefer that you only have one recovery thread:

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[Josephine]

lots of pain with aggressive PT, not adequate pain relief, and not being "proactive" with aggressive home therapy (said my OS).

Don't like the sound of that. Well not the PT version anyway.

turns out, I am "sensitive" to the cement

What did your surgeon have to say about that?

The choices are: do nothing and live with what I have (or don't have in this case), surgery (open or arthroscopic) to remove what I'm assuming are adhesions (I have had excessive scar tissue on several of my other surgeries), or a revision.

Well I'm always rather leery of claims of adhesions when there has been aggressive PT.

I'd really like to offer you some structured advice but in order to do that, I also need to ask you some questions. Are you willing for me to do that?

 

[inPAIN50]

I am an open book.....please ask whatever you'd like.

 

[Josephine]

Here y'go then!

It would be very helpful if you would answer each one individually - numbered as I have done - in as much detail as you can then I'll come back as see where you are ....

1. what are your pain levels right now? (remember the 1-10 scale: 1 = no pain and 10 = the worst you can imagine)

2. what pain medications have you been prescribed, how much are you taking (in mg please) and how often?

3. how swollen is your leg compared to these?

4. what is your ROM - that's flexion (bend) and extension (straightness)

5. are you icing your knee at all? If so, how often and for how long?

6. are you elevating your leg. If so how often and for how long?

7. what is your activity level? What do you do in the way of housework, cooking, cleaning, shopping, etc., and

8. are you doing any exercises at home? If so what and how often?
This is the most crucial question so please help me by using the format I have left as an example
(which means please make a list and not an essay!)

Exercises done at home
- how many sessions you do each day
- enter exercise by name then number of repetitions of each
etc., etc.

Anything done at PT
- how many times a week
- enter exercise by name then number of repetitions of each
etc., etc.