Star727
junior member
I had LTKR on July 8 (4 months ago). After 10 weeks of therapy 3 times a week, I told my therapist he was "fired". He's a great guy, helped me tremendously, helped me to get great ROM, I learned great exercises that I incorporate daily. I've stopped measuring my progress by numbers - I measure progress by what I can do that I couldnt do after July 8.
I went back to work after 10 weeks, starting back bowling in my two leagues after 15 weeks.
I will admit its not easy. Hurts like hell sometime. Its the stiffness that gets to me but I've started a routine to combat that and its been working pretty good now. Around 4:00am I take 3 Ibuprofens, 6:00am shower and dress for work, 6:30 ice the knee for about 30 minutes. The stiffness has gone away. I have an office job and I make myself walk around the building several times a day to keep the stiffness from setting in again. I even go to the gym (across the street!) and ride on the exercise bike for 15 minutes to loosen things up.
I did a 'Donald Trump' and told my therapist he was "fired". He's a really good guy, helped me to have good ROM and extension. But after seeing him for 10 weeks, 3 times a week, I couldnt take the pain he was causing me anymore. Bending my knee to the point I am screaming and crying had gotten to be too much. He forewarned me that he was going to go at me aggressively cause I told him I wanted to get back to bowling as soon as possible, but my goodness, the pain I was in everytime I went to therapy was making me depressed. Every morning on therapy day, I would start crying before I even got to the building! I felt that this has to stop.
He taught me all he knew that I needed for my recovery so I told him we were done. I havent look back, havent regretted my decision and I have been taking care of my knee. I bend it myself with less aggressiveness and its working out fine.
I think there comes a time when the therapy starts to be more of a problem than the reason you are there! I do not think I should have had so many weeks of therapy. Six weeks would have been enough but my doctor did not think I was recovering good enough so he gave me another prescription for 6 more weeks of therapy. After the last 4 weeks, I'd just had enough.
Ice and Ibuprofen works so well on me. I have not needed a vicodin in two weeks since I've been using my new two best friends on a regular basis. I put icecubes in a gallon ziplock bag, pour about 1/2 cup of rubbing alcohol in it and seal it up. After it has melted, I put it back in the freezer. When I'm ready to use it again, the ice is easy to break apart (slushy) due to the alcohol I put in it. Now it forms around my knee perfectly.
I LOVE ICE!!!!!!
I went back to work after 10 weeks, starting back bowling in my two leagues after 15 weeks.
I will admit its not easy. Hurts like hell sometime. Its the stiffness that gets to me but I've started a routine to combat that and its been working pretty good now. Around 4:00am I take 3 Ibuprofens, 6:00am shower and dress for work, 6:30 ice the knee for about 30 minutes. The stiffness has gone away. I have an office job and I make myself walk around the building several times a day to keep the stiffness from setting in again. I even go to the gym (across the street!) and ride on the exercise bike for 15 minutes to loosen things up.
I did a 'Donald Trump' and told my therapist he was "fired". He's a really good guy, helped me to have good ROM and extension. But after seeing him for 10 weeks, 3 times a week, I couldnt take the pain he was causing me anymore. Bending my knee to the point I am screaming and crying had gotten to be too much. He forewarned me that he was going to go at me aggressively cause I told him I wanted to get back to bowling as soon as possible, but my goodness, the pain I was in everytime I went to therapy was making me depressed. Every morning on therapy day, I would start crying before I even got to the building! I felt that this has to stop.
He taught me all he knew that I needed for my recovery so I told him we were done. I havent look back, havent regretted my decision and I have been taking care of my knee. I bend it myself with less aggressiveness and its working out fine.
I think there comes a time when the therapy starts to be more of a problem than the reason you are there! I do not think I should have had so many weeks of therapy. Six weeks would have been enough but my doctor did not think I was recovering good enough so he gave me another prescription for 6 more weeks of therapy. After the last 4 weeks, I'd just had enough.
Ice and Ibuprofen works so well on me. I have not needed a vicodin in two weeks since I've been using my new two best friends on a regular basis. I put icecubes in a gallon ziplock bag, pour about 1/2 cup of rubbing alcohol in it and seal it up. After it has melted, I put it back in the freezer. When I'm ready to use it again, the ice is easy to break apart (slushy) due to the alcohol I put in it. Now it forms around my knee perfectly.
I LOVE ICE!!!!!!