Ugh not good! Theee months post op today. I'm icing at PT right now. Spent the last week in Nebraska at funeral for Father in law and was hobbling thru airports and walking all over. Week before at daughters wedding. No pt for two weeks and rom has gone from 111 to 105. Follow -up with surgeon tomorrow morning. He mentioned MUA last time. I do not want one at all.
Shelley, your decrease in ROM has nothing to do with not going to PT, but much more to do with all the extra activity - walking through airports, wedding, funeral. They will all have increased the internal (and possibly external) swelling of your knee.
Instead of doing more exercises, treat your knee to a lot more elevation and icing, and see if that helps.
I doubt that your surgeon will want to do an MUA - very few surgeons do them once your ROM is past 90 degrees and the fact that you had already reached 111 proves that you don't have adhesions and an MUA would be an unnecessary and unwise operation.
Just tell your surgeon of all your increased activity recently and say you would like a while longer, to see if your knee improves again (I'm sure it will).
Remember, too, that it's your knee and no one can do anything to it without your permission.
Saying no to therapy - am I allowed to?
PS: In the first half year after a TKR, it's a good idea to ask for wheelchair assistance to get through airports - you do a lot of walking in those places.
Flying soon after surgery
United States
do you?" I'm prone to muttering, lol. By the time we're all recovered, we'll have an entire new wardrobe of T-Shirts!
Congrats on making it through the big day. Hope you can take a few days and recover.
