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You certainly may have something there with the amount of standing time you experienced last week. Good job listening to your body and working to analyze cause and effect.
Your replacement may not have anything to do with this at all. You know, even people with their own knees can overdo things and cause pain and muscle weakness. It is possible (even 4 years after your knee replacement) that your legs were not ready for that much work all at once.
Before you worked the 4 days straight with lots of standing and walking, what were your days like? It may be you just pushed yourself too hard. If you continue to feel better today, that may be the case. Since you aren’t too keen on trying to talk with the surgeon’s office, you could see your GP and request some physical therapy to get you going on targeted strength training.
If you continue to have the pain, though, even seeing the PA would be good. You could find out whether you had the patellar button and, if not, talk about the possibility that arthritis has moved to your kneecap. You could have an x-ray and possibly even get an MRI to look at your soft tissue. Those are all valuable tools and things that a PA can handle just fine. In fact, that may be a better choice as surgeons sometimes only think in “surgical” terms….yes….I do know surgeons.
Your replacement may not have anything to do with this at all. You know, even people with their own knees can overdo things and cause pain and muscle weakness. It is possible (even 4 years after your knee replacement) that your legs were not ready for that much work all at once.
Before you worked the 4 days straight with lots of standing and walking, what were your days like? It may be you just pushed yourself too hard. If you continue to feel better today, that may be the case. Since you aren’t too keen on trying to talk with the surgeon’s office, you could see your GP and request some physical therapy to get you going on targeted strength training.
If you continue to have the pain, though, even seeing the PA would be good. You could find out whether you had the patellar button and, if not, talk about the possibility that arthritis has moved to your kneecap. You could have an x-ray and possibly even get an MRI to look at your soft tissue. Those are all valuable tools and things that a PA can handle just fine. In fact, that may be a better choice as surgeons sometimes only think in “surgical” terms….yes….I do know surgeons.
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