Its definitely been a while since I have posted. My plan last spring was to take it easy over the summer and see how my left knee responded. Well summer turned into fall and then winter and here we are at spring again. Both knees are doing pretty good now. My left knee will be 2 years old next month and the right is 14 months now. I have a bit of an IT band issue with my left knee, but until recently haven't done much about it. I have been concentrating more on weight loss for several other reasons. Just last week I went and saw a new physiotherapist about the IT band issue. After checking everything out she found one hip abductor muscle wasn't working on my left side and only slightly on my right. With these muscles not working the quads want to take over their job. Apparently when the quads do to much they put pressure on the IT band which causes patellofemoral pain and IT band pain. I have been doing a couple hip abductor exercises every day for the past week, we'll see how this goes.
I have about 105° of flexion in that left knee now so we'll see if that changes down the road. Hopefully I'll post some news before another year is up.
As I said above its been a while since posting, but I have been here reading most of the posts. I'm still amazed at some of the remarkable recovery's some people have enjoyed. I truly sympathize with those through no fault of their own have drawn the short straw.
Heal well!! Ron
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