Go | New | Find | Notify | Tools | Reply | |
| Good luck to Big Al | Login/Join |
Has Achieved Nirvana |
Wishing you all the best on your upcoming knee replacement! 
| ||
|
Has Achieved Nirvana |
 | |||
|
Has Achieved Nirvana |
Break a leg! Oh, wait….. 
| |||
|
Minor Deity |
And kick butt after.
| |||
|
Minor Deity |
You've got this!
| |||
|
Minor Deity |
Speaking as a TKJR survivor myself, I won't pretend it's a breeze. However, you can minimize your net discomfort by a few pointers. (The staff doesn't always remind you). Be sure to keep your leg elevated, keep at the ice, "push through the pain" (just heard the exact advice given to a birthing woman in a drama), and make sure you're well tended to re pain management. (Involve higher levels if needed before you leave rehab or go to bed in rehab.). It's miserable to suddenly realize you're not going to make it to your next dose comfortably. when the prescriber is unavailable. Maximize your PT levels knowing the more you do, the less overall pain you'll have (it really amounts to avoiding your knee forming scar tissue in the wrong position). Personally, I lean into Lamaze breathing when there's inevitable discomfort. (Might you ever have learned that?). As in the birthing experience mentioned above, before you know it, you've received a gift: a baby in the first instance, a more mobile, more rejuvenated knee in the second. Hoping you have an optimal operation and recovery, Big Al!
| |||
|
Minor Deity |
You can do it, Big Al! I'm thinking of you.
| |||
|
Beatification Candidate |
Thanks, all. Particular thanks to Amanda for her practical advice. I attended Lamaze classes with my wife before she gave birth to our children. I'll try to remember those long-ago lessons. Big Al
| |||
|
| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana  |
Good luck! For what it's worth, I've never heard anyone say they regretted getting it done. It's typically more, "I wish I'd done it sooner." | |||
|
Has Achieved Nirvana |
It may not be fun, but YOU CAN DO IT!!! Do the therapy. Say those words, whine, whing, and more, but do it!! My father did not do the therapy. It was not good.
| |||
|
| twit Beatification Candidate |
Wish you the best! Don't break a leg. | |||
|
Gadfly |
I'm just overweight. Hit a peak of 320 in March. I asked my doctor if I might need knee replacement and she said "no it won't make you eat less." Obviously not your doctor! Let us know how physical therapy goes! And remember you have to do the exercises even though it hurts or you will walk with a gait. I remember all this from physical therapy from my broken knee from my head on car crash with a drunk driver in 1984.
| |||
|
| Minor Deity |
Glad - hope it really helps. Since there's not really any pushing involved (like childbirth), I was thinking of those exercises (often sitting) when they expect you to lean over and keep that operated-on knee as straight as you can! Often you'll have to push down on the knee when it wants to bend. (BREATHE). If your wife is up for it, she can push the joint down too when you're doing PT on your own at home. (Keep your eyes on those numbers - they'll be measuring the angle with a kind of protractor. Take pride when the numbers gradually budge indicating the angle is increasingly approaching 180 deg; i.e., flat - or damn near.) You're preventing the sliced muscles from healing in the wrong position when you go through that - discomfort! (One thing I trained myself to do giving birth was avoiding the word "pain" in preference to "discomfort". Helped me!)
| |||
|
| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity  |
Big Al, so is the procedure finished then? I hope PT goes well!!
| |||
|
| Has Achieved Nirvana |
He mentioned in another thread early last week that he was having surgery in about a week. I inferred from his comment that it might be today or tomorrow.
| |||
|
| Powered by Social Strata | Page 1 2 |
 | Please Wait. Your request is being processed... |
|