edk
senior
Excuse me if this has been discussed to death before but I haven't been on this side of the
discussion for a long time. I'm almost 4 months post op on a single TKR. I know there is a lot of discussion about how long a prosthesis lasts. But I really really think that the more important issue is to do the surgery before you have too much misshapenness and loss of muscle. It seems that people who have long and hard recoveries are those folks who put off the surgery til they have a lot of misshapeness and muscle loss. So I think the time to do the deed is when your functionality falls off the cliff.
I was in a moderate amount of pain controlled by NSAIDs, good ROM and nice musculature for years. Then over the course of a year my ROM fell off a lot and I started compensating with my good leg leading to some atrophy in my bad leg. When you see this kind of thing its time to do the surgery within a year or so I think.
Just my opinion.
discussion for a long time. I'm almost 4 months post op on a single TKR. I know there is a lot of discussion about how long a prosthesis lasts. But I really really think that the more important issue is to do the surgery before you have too much misshapenness and loss of muscle. It seems that people who have long and hard recoveries are those folks who put off the surgery til they have a lot of misshapeness and muscle loss. So I think the time to do the deed is when your functionality falls off the cliff.
I was in a moderate amount of pain controlled by NSAIDs, good ROM and nice musculature for years. Then over the course of a year my ROM fell off a lot and I started compensating with my good leg leading to some atrophy in my bad leg. When you see this kind of thing its time to do the surgery within a year or so I think.
Just my opinion.