Angiebabe
junior member
United KingdomCan you change my title to TKR 2 at 4 months please?
Update
My first knee needed a MUA as it scarred up and the bend dropped. MUA was all good and gradually I have achieved very functional ROM
9 months later I had the other knee done and I guess the surgeon and I both wanted to avoid anotherMUA . The bend was Ok ish 80 2 months. This time tried hydrotherapy at local centre anew programme for TKR I went 3x a week as I found it so good and after six weeks bend is now 100.
Saw surgeon today who like me was pleased. I guess underneath my worry was another MUA even though I didn’t think it necessary. Interestingly his approach was full bend will come over time and that more and more research shows waiting can be as effective as an MUA unless the scarring is reversing progress as in knee nos 1.
The physio had told me that it was important to keep working the knee therapeutically even when I had Rom.
The surgeons attitude was ‘no just live your life after all that’s what you did with the first knee and it all works’ don’t lock yourself into a medicalised rehab if ADL can do it.
My X-ray s were great - ha I like to think they were awesome!
With that I was discharged and told to come back if ever there was a problem but he thought I had 15+ free years.
Now it’s time to party
Update
My first knee needed a MUA as it scarred up and the bend dropped. MUA was all good and gradually I have achieved very functional ROM
9 months later I had the other knee done and I guess the surgeon and I both wanted to avoid anotherMUA . The bend was Ok ish 80 2 months. This time tried hydrotherapy at local centre anew programme for TKR I went 3x a week as I found it so good and after six weeks bend is now 100.
Saw surgeon today who like me was pleased. I guess underneath my worry was another MUA even though I didn’t think it necessary. Interestingly his approach was full bend will come over time and that more and more research shows waiting can be as effective as an MUA unless the scarring is reversing progress as in knee nos 1.
The physio had told me that it was important to keep working the knee therapeutically even when I had Rom.
The surgeons attitude was ‘no just live your life after all that’s what you did with the first knee and it all works’ don’t lock yourself into a medicalised rehab if ADL can do it.
My X-ray s were great - ha I like to think they were awesome!
With that I was discharged and told to come back if ever there was a problem but he thought I had 15+ free years.
Now it’s time to party
