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Scar tissue after knee replacement

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

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@sharonbrenna

I’m sorry you have stiffness in both knees. I had one TKR and ended up with limited range of motion and a diagnosis of arthrofibrosis. I belong to a Facebook group of about a few hundred people who have this condition. You may want to join it. You will learn of a few doctors who sort of specialize in arthrofibrosis. You will also find support from this group. Dr. Henry Finn of Chicago might possibly be able to help you with his hinged knee replacement. Personally, I’m going to go to the mayo clinic in April and see what they can do for me. I wouldn’t give up if I were you. Another thing I can say is I think it is hereditary also because my mother had a frozen elbow, and after my kidney surgery I was told my abdomen was full of scar tissue from previous surgeries. Now that I have one kidney I can no longer take NSAIDs by mouth but I have been told I can use the topical one, Voltaren gel. You may want to look into that for some minor relief. The best of luck to you.

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I used Voltaren diclofenac sodium successfully before surgery and got relief. I dont seem to get any after surgery for some reason. My two doctors said scar tissue can grow back and blood and trauma to the knee not helpful. The one dr said i had only 90 degrees flexion before surgery and not surprisingly same after surgery. Big difference I could easily flex my knees no stiffness before, now miserable stiffness.
I cant take nsaids any more. I am worse after surgery and had two top doctors perform surgery and xrays and healing looks good. I do have type 2 diabetes
Snd dugar not hood for muscles, I just cant understand it. I had manipulation weeks ago and he got it to 120 under anesthesia, then right to therapy but only get 90 degrees knees stiff as before manipulation,

Please, Please tell us the name of the FB group-- as many of us suffer with this as well as well, after continually botched surgeries I have only 62 degrees flexion and never ending chronic pain!