eeskiracer
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Well never give up....I was told in 2010 with all my sports injuries (9 knee surgeries and 3 spinal fusions) that I should chose one knee to do and the other would follow in a few months, both were bad bad bad. I chose Left.
Through all the rehab I had more pain than expected (the doc said, it was very tight in there, he had a hard time getting it in) horrible issues with ROM and I kept pushing myself through massage, PT, arnica, DMSO, you name it, and finally starting doing some crossfit and back to ski racing but it kept getting worse.....catching, stiffness, pain like before I had it done.
Every year I went for my yearly X-ray and doc just said, it's scar tissue, its maybe a reaction to the metal....not sure...no answers. I really needed to get the other one done but this one was so bad that I wasn't ready to commit to the other surgery and have really struggled. Finally I went to the Director of Joint reconstruction at a major university in Washington D.C. to see if maybe he could do something while I was under anesthesia getting the other one done to fix the original one. He took one look at the Xray and showed me.....no question....the prosthesis was too BIG!!
The metal on the tibial component overlapped the bone and both the medial and lateral sides and thus the pain! I was extremely thankful that the answer was so obvious, but really mad that I had to wait this long to find out why. 5½ years. So I have to get this one redone before we move on to the right one. Interesting that the first doctor never said anything and yet is was plain as day on the X-ray.
Through all the rehab I had more pain than expected (the doc said, it was very tight in there, he had a hard time getting it in) horrible issues with ROM and I kept pushing myself through massage, PT, arnica, DMSO, you name it, and finally starting doing some crossfit and back to ski racing but it kept getting worse.....catching, stiffness, pain like before I had it done.
Every year I went for my yearly X-ray and doc just said, it's scar tissue, its maybe a reaction to the metal....not sure...no answers. I really needed to get the other one done but this one was so bad that I wasn't ready to commit to the other surgery and have really struggled. Finally I went to the Director of Joint reconstruction at a major university in Washington D.C. to see if maybe he could do something while I was under anesthesia getting the other one done to fix the original one. He took one look at the Xray and showed me.....no question....the prosthesis was too BIG!!
The metal on the tibial component overlapped the bone and both the medial and lateral sides and thus the pain! I was extremely thankful that the answer was so obvious, but really mad that I had to wait this long to find out why. 5½ years. So I have to get this one redone before we move on to the right one. Interesting that the first doctor never said anything and yet is was plain as day on the X-ray.