Scar tissue after knee replacement

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Hello amberpep, I hope you don't mind but I have a couple questions because I'm having serious scar tissue problems and may need another replacement. So are you saying that you had scar tissue build-up after your first replacement but then no scar tissue build-up after your second replacement? Also, did you notice improvement after the arthroscopy? And why was it that they/you decided to have a second replacement? Thanks for helping, Dave

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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.

Do you mean scar tissue inside the knee preventing rom, or visible scar tissue on the outside?

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It sounds like scar tissue is more of a problem than i was told. I had knee replacement in june. Had manipulation. Was td was able to bend 120, but then scar tisdue built back up. Now tbinking of going back in to try to remove. Seeing a different doctor.

Mine was in August. Was told by PT and Doc that scar tissue is your body's way of protecting a 'hurt.' It may take 1 to 2 years to convince your body that you don't need 'protecting' as much. Break it up EVERY DAY. Move it constantly; little even helps (like 1 inch swinging it back and forth). My scar tissue has slowed down and now I deal with the muscle that runs from your hip over your quad, ACROSS THE KNEE CAP, tightening up and pushing down on the knee cap. That really hurts; we stretch it out at PT more than bending. I stretch it out across the bed, the couch, as I walk, etc. See anatomy pics to get a clearer pic of what is happening. Swelling in the quad hurts the knee cap. This pain is due to me actually beginning to live my life; sometimes I overdo it. Even walking too much without a cane an trigger huge pain in kneecap area. So now NAPROXEN helps (tylenol not quite strong enough) but don't need opioids as it isn't nerve pains, it's pressure on kneecap. So keep going to PT and stretch those quads every few hours just like you did ice in the beginning. It may take 1 to 2 YEARS. Hang in. Learning as I go.

Hello,
I don't know all the issue with your circumstances but you may want to ask your PT about some manual therapy- my professional experience and from personal experience is that you can stretch and stretch (with no results) but until you release the underlying tissue (fascia)- your issue will continue. Some examples of manual therapy include: cupping, instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM), or Rock Blade- there are a few other types of this, use of foam roller, or even deep tissue work.
I don't know how they exactly measure the amount of scar tissue nor how they determine it's no longer forming. My clinical experience is that this is very subjective but a therapist can manually feeling tissue tightness. But everyone has their own degree of scar tissue formation due to the degree of collagen in their body and how those bonds form after trauma. I feel fortunate to have not have this issue specifically but I do have less then desired outcomes after my knee replacement, now coming up on two years. If you are not icing after you stretch, you should check with your PT about that as for me, even two years later, ice is still the most helpful for pain management. Better than any medication- prescription or over the counter.