@lindafl

I agree that doing PT regularly is critical to a successful recovery. But I judge the success of the surgery by what I got immediately after the surgery and after the nerve block wore off.

I view the continuous PT requirement as a judgement of me and other recipients, not on the success of the surgery itself. Whether the recovery from the surgery is pain free or painful, one still needs PT.

I had zero post surgery pain. My surgeon's recovery protocol is to begin PT in the third week. i did so and that week my PT measured my ROM at 122, At that point I think the success of lack thereof is over and the rest is up to me.

I am two months out and have done about 18 PT sessions so far at the PT facility. I can do many of the exercises at home but they do sometimes change the exercises or the amount of them that I do and my therapist does massage my leg each time which I can't do myself. Each time they ice my knee at the end and give me ten minutes of TENS stimulation. It is also much harder to slack off at the PT facility.

So whether the surgery is an outlier at the positive end, or an outlier at the negative end, PT is critical and I would add doing so if at all possible at a PT facility.