I'm a little jealous of your ROM ;-) I am 6 weeks out and just now am getting to 100. I had great range before my surgery and was very active (60 years old).
I am still struggling with the internal swelling which seems to flair up whenever I become active. So- back to elevating and icing.
Yup that ROM drives me crazy!! Mine swells up the moment I take a stroll around the house and a few stretches - aarrgh! Then back to the icing and elevating.
@flyaway79 I've copied these comments that you made in mechellac's thread.
Your ROM of 120 is perfectly fine at just 6 weeks from your revision to TKR. Most surgeons only expect 90 degrees by then, and you've already passed that.
There's no need to keep worrying about your ROM. It's going to come, as your knee heals and the swelling goes down. It will take time, though - time to recover, time for swelling and pain to settle and time to heal. Your ROM is there right from the start, just waiting for all that to happen, so it can show itself.
Nothing happens quickly in this recovery, so dig deep into your store of patience.
That swelling is also normal at your stage of recovery. Do remember that complete recovery takes a full year, and so you are only 6/52 through it. What you have now is not what you will have in the end.
By the way, Josephine has asked you to give her more information about your exercises. Are you going to do that? See her post #44.
Also, you said you wanted your thread title changed, but you haven't come back to tell us what you would like the new title to be - see Post # 49. Do you read what we post, to try and help you?
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