P.T. seems PT for TKR is pretty much the same process.

[NuNeez519]

I had been to several PT facilities today to determine which I would choose, I wasn't happy with the old one I used for a prior surgery and Pre TKR. It seems to me that there is a basic PT agenda for TKR's. First Ultrasound, then stretching, strenghtening, followed by electrical stimulation and ice. Hopefully I will be on the bike by next week and a new machine that is used for bending the knees (low impact). Does this seem the norm for a TKR? Is there something else any of my NuNeez team has done differently. I am totally open for ALL suggestions ~JO

NuNeez

 

[gatiger]

I never had any ultrasound treatment, but the rest sounds fairly familiar. Good luck man, God bless.

 

[Josephine]

Sounds pretty cool to me, bro. Don't forget to take your Ipod!!

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[NuNeez519]

Jo I renamed my Ipod, it is now called the Igod! It is like an American Express, I can't leave home without it!

 

[Newwoman]

My physical therapist works with me and massage my leg then we bend it in different positions. Sometimes I'm on my back and sometimes I'm on my stomach and I do get on the bike but haven't made it around yet on rocking back and forth. I also get on the incline bench and let my weight take me down into a squat. The final and the one I hate the most is one that looks like something weight lifters would wear it's a belt and has a shoe attached to it with pulleys and you sit up on a table and you pull the pulley which raises the bend in your leg. The last seconds of this seem an eternity. After all that I get iced down.
My therapist mother-in-law had a partial kr and she was bending to 110 in two weeks and he has another patient that has happened to, he tells me not to compare because they are the difference between apples and oranges.
That's my experience.

Cathy

 

[Skeet]

Whoa, I feel gipped. I never got any massage.... but then again, I never got much pain either. Just slowly worked to the ROM I needed. Never pushed it too much. Now I'm at about 0 and 120 or so. I'll get the doc to measure me next Monday when I see him.

 

[Sue]

NuNeez, I lucked out, found a PT center that had a therapeutic pool. That was awesome. I could do so much more in the pool than on land. Sue

 

[JenniferG]

Yeah, but no pool unitil after2-3 weeks, right, for the incision to heal.