In another week your TKR will be a year old! How is it doing? Are you happy with it?
TKR RTKR February 12th Recovery thread
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A belated Happy One Year Anniversary, Alice Nutter!
We'd love to read about how you're doing one year post op...if you have a minute while you're here.
I hope 2026 is off to a good start for you. Take care!
@Alice Nutter
We'd love to read about how you're doing one year post op...if you have a minute while you're here.
I hope 2026 is off to a good start for you. Take care!
@Alice Nutter
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I totally agree with the idea that if you need to take extra pain relief to do the exercises you shouldn't be doing them. Who knows what's happening to your knee when it's numbed. There's no point in flaring it with too much exercise, I've discovered. One useful PT expert said to me, 'When it hurts, sit down. In fact, try to sit down before it hurts so that you don't trigger the inflammation unnecessarily.'
The NHS prescribes the bridging exercise as part of their phase two programme. They say do it starting with five minutes and gradually increasing. I'm three and a bit weeks post-op and I'm not doing it yet, but I'm older than you are. I have so many jobs to do around the house it's a challenge to do them without flaring my knee.
Just in case this applies to you, I found that the quadriceps-focussed exercises prescribed for me (and everyone else part of the NHS follow-up PT) were unhelpful. What was really useful was waking up my sleeping glutes and learning how to use them properly to walk - which I hadn't been doing for decades.
The NHS prescribes the bridging exercise as part of their phase two programme. They say do it starting with five minutes and gradually increasing. I'm three and a bit weeks post-op and I'm not doing it yet, but I'm older than you are. I have so many jobs to do around the house it's a challenge to do them without flaring my knee.
Just in case this applies to you, I found that the quadriceps-focussed exercises prescribed for me (and everyone else part of the NHS follow-up PT) were unhelpful. What was really useful was waking up my sleeping glutes and learning how to use them properly to walk - which I hadn't been doing for decades.
