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Scar tissue after knee replacement

Joint Replacements | Last Active: Apr 22 9:03am | Replies (1521)

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This x10 machine looks good. I used a CPM machine post TKR, MUA and following my recent arthroscopic arthrolysis and debridment of left knee surgery, but only when I was in hospital, as both the surgeon and physio wanted me to get the ROM by myself. After the TKR and MUA I was having physio twice weekly and they were using a cybex machine, but the scar tissue was reaccumulating between these sessions.

Although the physio at the operating hospital has discharged me on Tuesday , she said the knee flexion was 120, the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital said ROM yesterday was +5-105, so slightly confused! I am still having hydrotherapy, but this caused a lot of pain yesterday and this morning. My knee still feels like it is surrounded by Velcro, which I have to break down every day....

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What exactly do they do in hydrotherapy? I am really not as informed as others on this blog ... I also feel I have to "restart" to some degree each day... doesn't everyone in the first 3 -12 months? The stationary bike helps with that. My understanding from friends and the surgeon was that it would 3 - 12 months for that to improve. Especially true for me since my problems started 40 years ago when I was young and I did bilateral. I had a very unrealistic picture from the healthier people I read about on the internet!