@Josephine. I saw my OS yesterday for my one year post op revision surgery visit. I feel tightness on the medial side just above knee extending down to mid-calf .
My chiropractor who has been working on my knee recently feels that contractions (combination of psoas and rectus femoris) decreased combined ROM hip tension and leg flexion.
I have a vacation home in the mountains, where I go every other weekend which has 18 steps going to entrance. While I'm there I go up and down at least 2-3 times a day. My knee will ache after doing this so I elevate/ice.
My knee tires after walking. I've been going to chair yoga weekly since May and it feels good..
On appearance, my knee looks "normal" i.e. no swelling. Xrays look good, signs of maturation of the bone around the implant. I told him my knee feels stiff but he said it doesn't look stiff. He told me that it is a little unusual to have the sensation of scar tissue when I have fantastic ROM which is at least 120. He worries when scar tissue is blocking motion so the sensation of scar tissue is not something he could go surgically and find. But he said that I feel tightness, but it moves well, that is not something that is visible.
If knee doesn't bend, then he would go in and out a camera in in there and remove the scar tissue. My problem is invisible. He cannot objectively find what I feel on my knee. Where I feel tightness, in his opinion it could be a nerve where I'm attributing it to be a scar. It could be nerve pain because it has responded to Gabapentin in the past. I'm presently on Gabapentin 300mg in a.m. and 600mg at bedtime but in order to sleep without pain I also take either 1000 mg Tylenol or 25 mg Tramadol.
What I feel and what he can find on my knee are very different things. What I'm doing i.e manual manipulations, massage, ice are what he would recommend also. He examined my knee and to him it looks like a pretty good knee.
In your experience, Josephine, have you seen this at one year post op, and is there a possibility of sensation of tightness, perhaps due to nerve, ease up?