After surgery home PT was just here. My ROM is now 85 , that is 12th day post op. I am happy, but she was stressed, telling me: you need to increase your range of motion, scar tissu is building up and, blablabla. I looked at her and said: there is one spot in my knee that prevents me from going further, I can feel a swollen "ball" . When the soft tissu heals and that swelling goes down, then it will move further. She says do your stretches 3 times a day, and I answered yes if I am not over swelled. Trying to stretch and fight swelling is counter productive, painfull and useless.
I told her this is my 2 nd knee and I had 70 Rom at 3 weeks because of swelling the 1st time around and everything turned out OK..I it perfectly fine now.
She was also all over me with the leg lifts, I said right now I alternate one day full leg raise, the other the knee raise from the roll under your knee. If I do both the same day, at this time of my recovery, everything swells up for 12 hours andstay in a state of continious lingering pain, and I loose control on the whole process because my body can not go that fast at this time.....
She listened and finally showed me two other exercises that I can do with my walker standing and that are putting less stress on the soft tissu. i tried them and said these are awsome. It works my quad without over stressing the knee.
I am proud of myself for talking control of my recovery and standing my grounds. The only person I will listen too other than myself is my OS. And this is what I have been doing!
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! Yep this is life on day 4 post op.
for... The 'wake up quad muscle leg raise'. My husband come into the room to cheer me, I am aloud to scream my headoff and swear while holding the leg up....today I manage 5 repeats and I held to the count of 6 the last one.
, I could not get myself to do this one without his cheers. So happy I made it!
I am not relaxing leg up and iced!
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