@mid02860 ,
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Sounds like too much has been done to your knee, suspect PT was pushing and shoving for ROM. All the pushing and shoving can cause swelling and inflammation, blocking your ROM.
There is nothing we can do to rush this year long+ recovery, but we can set it back by doing too much, too soon.
Suggest you stop all formal exercise and start Resting, Icing, Elevating, and Medicating on schedule as prescribed. Listen to your knees, if swelling, pain, or inflammation increase, they are letting you know you did too much.
It is time to give your poor knees a chance to heal, they have been through a major surgery, brutal PT, and an exercise program.
IMO, I would postpone the surgery to remove scar tissue, and give your knees half a chance to heal.
Here are the recovery guidelines, the articles are short and will not take long to read.
Give the guidelines a week or two to turn your knees around.
Knee Recovery: The Guidelines
1.
Don’t worry: Your body will heal all by itself. Relax, let it, don't try and hurry it, don’t worry about any symptoms now, they are almost certainly temporary
2.
Control discomfort:
3.
Do what you want to do BUT
a. If it hurts, don't do it and don't allow anyone - especially a physical therapist - to do it to you
b. If your leg swells more or gets stiffer in the 24 hours after doing it, don't do it again.
4. PT or exercise can be useful BUT take note of these
5. At week 4 and after you should follow this
The Recovery articles:
The importance of managing pain after a TKR and the pain chart
Swollen and stiff knee: what causes it?
Energy drain for TKRs
Elevation is the key
Ice to control pain and swelling
Heel slides and how to do them properly
Chart representation of TKR recovery
Healing: how long does it take?
Post op blues is a reality - be prepared for it
Sleep deprivation is pretty much inevitable - but what causes it?
There are also some cautionary articles here
Myth busting: no pain, no gain
Myth busting: the "window of opportunity" in TKR
Myth busting: on getting addicted to pain meds
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