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Hi @Yorkimom ,
I've been reading your thread with interest. I think you are so very right to change Phyios! Sometimes there is a great difference between a Physio who is experienced at post surgery rehab and one you works with injured athletes!! They may have the same technical training but not the understanding of how recovery works best . Obviously exacerbating swelling through exercises too hard would effect ROM! So you are now back in the right environment.
I will be crossing over to the other side on 9 October so I am grateful for all the hints and comments I read on the Recovery Thread.
Hope all is going well with you @Celle !
 
I wish you luck with your upcoming surgery @Maeve.
Today I went back to my old PT. It is not a large facility like the one I went to last week. I was immediately welcomed by those who saw me and they all remembered me. I felt like I came home. I couldn't get an appointment with Christine, but got an appointment with Renee. She was wonderful. Very kind, understanding and gentle. I filled her in on what had happened. She wouldn't say anything negative about the other facility but did say that I was pushed too much too soon and that my knee was very swollen. With all the swelling there is more pain and a decreased ROM. She said she would be gentle and only do a few things to see where we were. She had me get up from a chair with the walker in front of me and timed me to see how long it took me to walk about 10 feet, turn around and get back into the seat. She apologized but said that she would like to take measurements to have a base. My extension was good at 7. She let me do that all by myself. For the bending she did help me a little but never pushed me to pain. My ROM was only around 66. She then measured around my knee to see how swollen it was. Then she put on a cold compress wrap. It was about 17" long and covered from above my knee all the way down to my lower calf. It was very cold and did compressions. They put my legs up on a wedge, gave me a blanket and I laid there for about 10 minutes. It got a little cold, but it was heaven. Then she measured my knee again and said that the swelling went down a bit. While I was lying there, Christine came in to say hello and to catch up. She said not to worry that we will get back on track. I go back in Friday. In the meantime my homework is heel pumps, quad sets, gluteal sets and heal slides. She said do them gently and keep icing and elevating to reduce swelling. I can't tell you how happy I am that I left the other facility and came back to this one. Thanks everyone for giving me the push to change. Anne
 
Hooray! I'm so happy for you. I'm sure things will begin to turn in the right direction for you now. Congrats!
 
Hello Anne @Yorkimom

So very happy for you that you are now in a PT centre that is right for you.
Your first (new) visit sounded very supportive and that is very important for your recovery.

Take care
Cathie
 
Hi @Yorkimom !
Sounds like you have found just the right rehab facility! You will come on in leaps and bounds now! ....at your own speed and without the stress and pain of overdoing it!
Good luck. I must note down the exercises you are doing! Sounds a plan!
 
I feel relieved for you. It's great that the PT you are comfortable with is also encouraging. I sure hope mine will be like that.
 
Oh this sounds so much better!
 
Today was my second visit to PT and they really worked me. I am not having problem with extension. It is with bending where I am having trouble. The therapist did push a little and tried to get it bending more. She goes so far and can see from the expression on my face to stop. So even though she is pushing she is doing it slowly, gently and with compassion. Every time I think about it, I could just kick myself for not starting out with her but I can't change it so I just have to move forward. You have to know me....at times I am my own worst enemy. Anyway one thing that they do differently this time and something I know I already hate is an exercise they have for bending. The last two exercises I did was for extension and bending. Extension - you sit in a chair and put your leg on the table which is several feet away. You rest your heel on the table and just let your leg relax. Boy it stretches your leg and you sit like that for five minutes. Next bending. You sit at the end of the table and let your legs dangle from the table. There is a thick elastic strip under the table and they stretch that and put it in front of your shin. You let your leg hang and relax and this pulls your leg back bending it. She wanted me to sit like that for five minutes, but she said this is hard so she just had me do it for three minutes. Then they put my leg in the ice wrap that compresses with my legs elevated and a warm blanket. Pure heaven!!
I came home, and after a very painful ride home, my hubby Joe made me lunch. Then I hooked myself up to the cyro cuff, covered up with blankets and immediately fell asleep. I got a phone call two hours later that woke me up. I answered, went to the bathroom and then immediately fell back to sleep until Joe called me two hours later to say he was on his way home. I felt like I had been drugged. I looked at the time and it was 4:30 and I hadn't had any pain meds since 10:00 a.m. I feel like I slept away most of the day!!! Anne
 
I am so happy for you that you have gone "home" to a comfortable PT. You sound so much more relaxed. My icing machine also does cold compression and I really like it. It sounds like they pamper you after therapy- how wonderful!
 
Hi Anne @Yorkimom

Your second PT session seems to be doing you good, although you were tired at the end of the session.
I know those exercises that you mentioned and they are hard. I find the extension ones harder than the bending exercises.

Take care and take it one step at a time.
Cathie
 
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@Yorkimom Sorry about your first PT but sounds like you made a very good decision and are going in the right direction. And the naps sound lovely. Take care of yourself and best wishes as you continue your recovery.
 
hope you're getting some nice naps today. :sleep:
 
@PuppyLove, @gr82cu2, @marmora, @Minnie's knees, @kneeper thanks for your encouraging words. I am doing pretty good except that for some reason I want to sleep all the time this weekend. I have cut down on my pain meds a little, so you would think that I would have slept more when I was on a higher dose. I have been resting, icing and elevating and not much else. In two weeks my neighborhood book club meets and I'm hoping to go so I have been trying to read the book (The Aviator's Wife), but I only get about 10 minutes read and I nod off. I am also trying to do my exercises but the ones where you bend your knee are the most painful for me. It feels like my leg is a swollen log. I know it will get better, but you forget how things are from the first surgery, but everything is certainly coming back! I hope everyone has a great night. Anne
 
@Yorkimom

Sleeping is one of the best things you can do. You can very quickly use up your store of energy at this stage, because almost all your energy is concentrated on healing your knee.
 
Hello Anne @Yorkimom

Sleep is our body way of taking care of us and your body and knee must need some extra snoozing :chillpill:

About your book club meeting, if you don't finish the book, Google the book and you will come up with sites that will give you a summary, other book club comments, questions and answers about the book, etc.

It's not the same as reading the book, but under the circumstances, when you can't read you can still feel comfortable at the Book Club meeting as you will have a better understanding of the book.

Take care,
Cathie:flwrysmile:
 
@gr82cu2, @tiredwife,@PuppyLove, @Celle, @marmora, @kneeper, @Minnie's knees or anyone else I can't think of right now. I woke up this morning around 5:30 with pain in the back of my knee. My knee itself hurts too because I have the burning and tight band feeling, but the pain in back of the knee is terrible. Just moving my leg to get out of bed was painful and I could hardly walk to the bathroom and getting back into bed was painful. I couldn't lift my leg and I have been doing that since I came from the hospital. I took my pain meds and was hoping it would get better in a couple of hours. Around 9 I got up and Joe had to help me to sit back in the recliner because I just couldn't lift my leg. I've been trying to get up and walk it off thinking it needed movement to loosen it up. It has gotten a little better, but I am leaning on the walker to walk. I can now lift my leg but it is still painful in the upper part of the back do the knee. I am supposed to be at apt at 1 and ai can't see how I am going to do the exercises. Any suggestions???? Thanks, Anne
 
I'm so sorry to hear about this sudden pain. I have not had that happen, so I don't really have any advice. I would keep the PT appt. Maybe they could do some massage or something to ease the pain. I hope it gets better soon.
 
@PuppyLove , Thanks Chris. I called PT and they said to still try to come so I'm leaving in about 20 minutes. It should be interesting. I have been having crying jags all morning because of the the pain and I just hope I can hold it together when I get there. I'll let you know how it goes. Anne
 
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