Hello
@grizz - and
Jaycey is right. Stop trying to please your surgeon and your PT therapists. They're all being impatient.
It's pretty obvious that, with all the swelling and bruising your leg had, your ROM is not going to increase at the rate they want.
Poor knee - how can it bend further when swelling is physically preventing it?
The last thing it needs is being forced to do exercises, in the vain hope that it will meet their unrealistic expectations.
Experienced tremendous swelling of knee down thru lower leg and ankle. According to PT a lot of this is due to the surgical procedure with ROBOTIC MAKO. Bruising and black/blue becoming quite evident in lower leg throughout ankle/heel/foot.
The swelling and bruising have nothing to do with you having had the Mako robotic procedure. They are a natural result of your knee having one of the most major surgeries it could have. Swelling and bruising are a normal reaction to that, and everyone experiences it. In your case, the swelling is made worse by everyone's attempts to make your knee bend further than it is ready to.
In spite of what you've been told, there's no need to rush to get ROM (Range of Motion) because it can continue to improve for a year, or even much longer, after a knee replacement. There isn't any deadline you have to meet:
Myth busting: the "window of opportunity" in TKR
It's not exercising that gets you your ROM anyway - it's time. Time to recover, time for swelling and pain to settle, and time to heal. Your knee has the potential to achieve good ROM right from the start, but it's prevented from doing so by swelling and pain. As it heals and the swelling goes down, your ROM (both flexion and extension) will gradually increase, even if you don't do lots of exercises.
So, try to forget about the pressure put on you to get ROM fast, and, take a big break from doing exercises. Your knee will get all the exercise it needs at this stage, just by you walking around the house and taking care of your activities of daily living.
Instead of doing formal exercises, spend as much time as you can resting, icing and elevating you knee, to try to help the swelling go down. Your knee has been traumatized and it needs time and gentle treatments, so it can heal.