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:amen1: You keep right on accentuating the positive---its good for all of us. And Celle is right---we need to be sure new folks coming on the forum get as many positive messages as possible since we know that 90% of TKRs have positive results.

Plus you are full of very good info, great PT ideas, and you are funnnneee!:loll:

Keep posting. We need you. :cat-kittyandsmiley:Judy
 
That was interesting, Roy. But I thought an image would help a bit - how about this one?
Shows that inward swing of the foot with and outward turn of the toes at each step.

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Good photo, Jo! One thing you can see if you look closely at those footsteps in the sand, is the walker's heel-to-toe motion. It is important that your gait has the heel going down first and as you progress forward in the step you roll onto your toe for a push-off to the next step.

You can tell the person in the photo is doing this because of the slightly deeper impression in the heel and also in the toe area. Sometimes in the beginning as you are learning to do this properly, you may have to consciously say to yourself..."heel roll to toe, heel roll to toe..."
 
karmigirl said:
Roy,

Thanks for the walking description. I guess I should have known that being a breeder of Great Danes that is exactly how we want them to track, just never realized I should be doing it also.
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Never mind, it never really occured to me that I should be walking like a Great Dane either, you are not alone.
 
Jamie said:
Sometimes in the beginning as you are learning to do this properly, you may have to consciously say to yourself..."heel roll to toe, heel roll to toe..."
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I did this in the earlier stages of walking on my new legs and it helped greatly, along with tossing all my old shoes and starting with new ones.

Kurt
 
4 month review

Well 2 days short of 4 months but the heck with it.
  • Cycling is starting to be possible. Just done 4th consecutive day, 22,16,16 and 20 miles respectively. Today's was 15.8mph, hr avg 130 max 155, so just starting to get into the lowest end of training. Cycling buddies have commented that my pedaling action is much smoother than before, and I can feel that it's true. And I can feel that I can put more force through the knee than before. It may be that I'll in the course of time be a better cyclist than before!!!

    My tentative schedule is for my come-back to racing to be in May at my club's 10-mile time trial season, where I will hope to beat 'evens' ('evens' is cycling slang for 20mph, or 10 miles in half an hour of course). I was doing 25 minutes last year.

    Majorca in 11 days, can't wait, 2 weeks in the (I hope) sunshine.

  • Over the last few weeks I've moved from being someone cautiously recovering to someone with slightly dodgy knees sometimes. I walk fairly normally with only a slightly awkward gait now, and it gets better. I don't walk fast yet, but it'll come. Stairs up and down normal; no hanging on or using arms to help. Not two at a time yet, but it'll come.

  • Drug free and have been for ages now.

  • Extension about 0, flexion about 130. Stretching exercises still needed, and will be for a long time, progress is slow. Each day I increase range, each morning it's 99.999% back to where it was - the elastic band springs back! Bu I am determined to be able to sit on my heels, as normal people do, one day.

  • Some fluid still there on the knee, but now getting down to how it was before surgery, near enough. Always decreasing.

  • Still some stiffness first thing in the morning, still some 'clicking' from the knees, but again always decreasing. Almost full feeling back from bits numbed by surgery on the outside of each leg.

  • I am working hard to retain that wonderful 'ain't life grand!' feeling and not to go back to being a grumpy old git again. Not sure it it'll work but it won't be for lack of hope.
 
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Thanks Roy. So encouraging. What you want to achieve with cycling I want to do with walking. I'm still dreaming of returning to walking holidays where we hike seven or eight miles a day. At the moment I'm stuck on one but I know the knees have got more in them - once they are finally unlocked from the stiffness and swelling.
 
I am totally in awe of anyone who has both knees done! Well done, enjoy your holiday
 
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Off to Majorca tomorrow. There's my bike almost packed, lots more bubblewrap to complete the job.

I won't be on here so much the next couple of weeks, I'll be

- riding my bike
- in the cafe drinking proper coffee (it's almost impossible to get good coffee in UK or USA I reckon).
- in the bar drinking beer or wine, with or without a fine meal
- talking old tosh with my mates

I mean to say, it's a tough job but someone's got to do it.
 
Why should we be surprised that the guy who had champange with an Olympic star is the one going to Majorca to bike, drink good coffee, and imbibe in beer and wine?

Have a GREAT time--we'll miss you. Judy
 
Fabulous! Have a super time, you've earned it! And let me just say, that's the craziest bit of luggage I've ever seen. :yay:
 
Have a great holiday Roy :thumb: I do hope you have another case for a wash bag and a change of undies :th_heehee:
 
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