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tigz
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United StatesWent for a follow-up with the OS today. It's 24 weeks since my surgery, 15 weeks since my MUA, we'll just call it six months since my surgery. 
He was quite pleased. My ROM was 125, my extension 0. He said I'll probably continue to get additional ROM in small increments. He said to remember I had two major surgical procedures in less than 12 weeks and I was still healing from the trauma of that combination. That's when I interjected and asked for an extension of the temporary handicap parking, so he gave me three more months. Was pleased with the little bit of swelling that I have, and happy with my activity level between working and walking. I told him the pain behind the knee was at a level of just annoying at night now. He attributed most of that to the hamstrings. He said the clicking was normal and in most patients it goes away in time. He's not worried about the quad lag, said to do the exercises PT had recommended no more than three times a week, it would come in time.
I asked him again about the number of MUAs he does in a year, and he said in the previous five years he had done two, and from January to July of this year he'd done five. He went back and reviewed all those cases as he was wondering why he has had such an unusually high rate of MUAs this year but found nothing of significance in the surgical notes except that three of us had history of previous knee surgery.
ETA I just commented in Gilina's thread:
You make me want to go edit my OS update from today... I still need to hold on with one hand both up and down stairs and yes, the knee is still boss with a bit of stiffness and discomfort still there in the the background, for lack of a better way to describe it.
He was quite pleased. My ROM was 125, my extension 0. He said I'll probably continue to get additional ROM in small increments. He said to remember I had two major surgical procedures in less than 12 weeks and I was still healing from the trauma of that combination. That's when I interjected and asked for an extension of the temporary handicap parking, so he gave me three more months.
Was pleased with the little bit of swelling that I have, and happy with my activity level between working and walking. I told him the pain behind the knee was at a level of just annoying at night now. He attributed most of that to the hamstrings. He said the clicking was normal and in most patients it goes away in time. He's not worried about the quad lag, said to do the exercises PT had recommended no more than three times a week, it would come in time.I asked him again about the number of MUAs he does in a year, and he said in the previous five years he had done two, and from January to July of this year he'd done five. He went back and reviewed all those cases as he was wondering why he has had such an unusually high rate of MUAs this year but found nothing of significance in the surgical notes except that three of us had history of previous knee surgery.
ETA I just commented in Gilina's thread:
You make me want to go edit my OS update from today... I still need to hold on with one hand both up and down stairs and yes, the knee is still boss with a bit of stiffness and discomfort still there in the the background, for lack of a better way to describe it.
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