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Joint Replacements | Last Active: Oct 10 8:31am | Replies (1550)

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This is Lori. I had written before about neuropathy. My foot pain seems to be getting better very slowly. Neurologist, podiatrist, foot and ankle orthopedist all said there was nothing they could identify to cause the pain down the inside of my foot and weak painful feeling when I walk more than a block. I am doing a lot of strengthening on my tkr right knee from surgery 8 months ago, and am up to 75 pounds on squat sets. I got up to 50 miles round trip on my road bike before the weather got too miserable to ride anymore. The problem is that every single morning I have to go through the herl slides pulling up with a strap to get my knee to bend to where I want it to. Without assistance, it is about 128 or 130 lieing on my back, but if I sm doing some activity outside and my foot gets slightly caught up against grass or snow or something, it is incredible pain because the knee is forced to bend the amount that it really needs to clear my leg from stuff on uneven ground when
I am walking. This tells me it is not bending far enough. When I do heel slides, I have to go through a lot of pain and finally pull my heel up to within a thumb to index finger width distance from my butt. I think that distance is about 135 degrees. It is frustrating and I wonder if I have to continue to do these painful heel slides forever every day, or will it finally bend enough on its own? I hope other people read this and respond. Not sure how this works to get other people to see this.

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Hello. I had a TKR in October. You are talking about your foot. Since my surgery my foot had either had numbness, tingling or so HOT I can barely stand it. It also has a feeling of a ball under it when I walk. Different feelings every day. Painful.
My knee is really painful as well. So hard to get a good nights rest.
Is that what you are doing?
You are getting really good flexion the best I have ever done “cold” is 120 and 124 with PT.
I am worried because I cannot go for walks anymore but maybe it will all come with time?