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@SpaceGirl I'd spend as much time as possible for a few days icing and elevating, along with short walks around your house regularly. After a few days, reevaluate your swelling and pain and see if it's helped. I suspect it will as icing and elevating help alleviate swelling and the pain that swelling brings. You're still in the very early days and your knee is very unhappy with all it's gone through. Give it a little time to get over the initial trauma and shock by taking care and babying it some. Don't become a couch potato though, you still need to walk around and move it; just don't do any extra or excessive exercise or activity for a few days. If it's feeling better after that, very gradually add in some of the activities as posted in your recovery articles, specifically the "activity progression" article.
I doubt that anything has gone wrong, your knee is just traumatized by the surgery and needs some time to heal. Keep walking to move your new knee, and all your other leg and body parts, but don't do any excessive exercises or activities for a bit.
I doubt that anything has gone wrong, your knee is just traumatized by the surgery and needs some time to heal. Keep walking to move your new knee, and all your other leg and body parts, but don't do any excessive exercises or activities for a bit.