Burning pain in quads

[twoyearspost]

I am 8 weeks post on my LTKR and when I do my quad excercises, my PT gal calls them linebackers which is basically deep knee bends, I get burning pain in my quads. I have had trouble doing them because of the pain. Does anyone else get burnign pain in their quads while excercising them?
Mary

 

[Jamie]

Twoyearspost.....does the pain just occur when you are doing the exercise itself or does it hurt afterwards? I'm certainly not a therapist or doctor, but doing DEEP knee bends at 2 months seems a bit aggressive for therapy. My therapist had me do knee bends (where you bend and poke your rear end way out as you bend) at first to sit in a chair, then just to pretend you were going to sit and stand back up again. For me, that would have been at about 2 months.

 

[Josephine]

Just what I was going to say, Jamie. Sounds more like he's gearing up to play a game!!!

 

[twoyearspost]

The excercise you described is exactly what I have been doing at pt, hanging on to the parallel bar and pretending I am going to sit. I also am supposed to stand up against the wall and slide down and up using the leg muscles but it burns. I do have some burning for awhile after but it's not constant so of course I ice it then.
Mary

 

[Jamie]

Whew!!! That doesn't sound nearly so menacing as "DEEP KNEE BENDS." I was picturing your therapist making you bend down to a squat and come back up! The exercises you describe sound very typical of therapy for knee surgery. Your quad muscles are weak and need to build back up. You didn't mention any pain medication....are you taking prescription pain meds about an hour before therapy? That could help a LOT.

 

[JudyS]

I'm afraid when really stressing muscles working out they do givve a burning sensation thus the statement heard at gyms "do yuou feel the burn"
It is not a bad thing, but sure does hurt
Judy

 

[Weezy]

And I don't know about you, but because I waited so long to get my knees replaced, my quads deteriorated quite a bit because I wasn't as active any more. That made it LOTS harder to do those squatting exercises at first. The burning goes away once your quads start gaining strength.

Weezy

 

[twoyearspost]

Jamie I am taking Vicoden and I have been taking one plus a couple if ibuprofin and hour before pt but doesn't seem to take care of the burning pain. I didn't know if the burning was typical as I don't remember it when I had my rtkr 3 years ago. my therapist gave me a different sset of excercises for my quads and that isn't as painful. Thanks for all your input.
Mary

 

[Jamie]

Good, Mary....sounds like you are on top of it. Keep working!!! It all gets better and better...honest!