Mako Robotic Total Knee Replacement

Hello Greatfulbob!
Congrats on your current successes.
I had similar early success post-op in 12/24 for left knee.
BUT, my in-home PT tech was lousy! Should have fired him!
As soon as that was done (with doctor's ok) I flew out of state to celebrate Christmas with my son's family. So no PT at that time.
When out patient PT started all went well at first. But my earlier bad start seemed to catch up with me and my new knee after about 3-weeks.
Improvement started to slow down dramatically.
Obviously the poor start of PT was not good.
Now, 9.5 months post-op, I still have some pain; especially going down stairs. Range of motion is limited both flex and extend. And I can't keep up a good walking pace. I only need a cane or 'trekking pole' on uneven ground.
The moral of my story is:
dive into the PT and make it your #1 priority!
I sure will when my right knee gets replaced.
Again, your wonderful success so far is a real blessing. Keep up the good work!

After just one day the nerve block and anesthesia may still be working. Fingers crossed that you continue to have an excellent outcome. Please post again in a week and let us know how you are doing.

I am having a similar surgery in a few days only my surgeon uses the CORI robot and related Journey II implant. I am hoping he will be able to do a bicruciate retaining implant but I won't know for sure until after the surgery as he has to get in there to be sure that he can do it for me.

Every surgeon has her own routine. Mine has PT commencing in the third week post surgery.

"Every surgeon has her own routine. Mine has PT commencing in the third week post surgery." -- what you say is true!
But will you have home exercises to start on your own before you before you start the official PT? I was given sheets of exercises to do at least twice a day immediately after leaving the hospital, and started my three times a week PT sessions within 4 or 5 days. I would worry about regaining full potential of knee flex if nothing at all is done for three weeks. Home exercises are a good start.

I don't know as yet the full plan. He will give it to me on the day of surgery. But I have complete faith in him. He replaced my left hip and I had zero pain during recovery (or subsequent). He has been doing a subv approach to knee replacement surgery for at least ten years and he does not use a tourniquet.

Every surgeon has her own routine. I don't feel knowledgeable enough to second guess my surgeon. I do know that he wants me to do ice (Game Ready Ice Machine) 6-8 times a day and that was advice I followed religiously for my hip.

I know that the first day or two after surgery is not representative (the nerve block may still be operative) but a week or so after my surgery I will post back here.

Interestingly, my older brother is having a knee replacement the same day but in a small university city in the midwest. His surgeon is very conservative and he does cut the tendon during his surgery and he does use a tourniquet instead of tranexamic acid. My brother is doing his proactively (no current pain but bone on bone) whereas I have considerable pain (including severe referred pain in my foot and ankle) with misalignment and bone on bone. It will be interesting to see how each of us do on recovery (all the data seems to show that ultimate recovery is pretty similar no matter which approach is used).