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Leg length difference after TKR! What can be done?
Joint Replacements | Last Active: Feb 15 3:59pm | Replies (78)Comment receiving replies
@ellerbracke Interestngly, many people do have a slight difference in leg length, naturally. I do and when I get the length of pants altered they have to take that into consideration. I guess when you have had two legs the same length all of your life and then that changes it is an adjustment though. I hope that PT will help you with that, I think that maybe part of it is simply adjusting to the difference.
JK
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@contentandwell : JK, I am not even certain that my legs were the same length before the TKR. They never gave me any problems before. Perhaps the almost 2 years of compensating for one sort of pain or another (knee, back, hip) has simply caused my muscles and tendons get out of whack, rather than that the surgery lengthened the leg. The result is the same, though - trouble walking normally. PT (5 days doing the exercises at home) does seem to help as far as relieving the tightness and pain in the left leg; unfortunately those exercises are tough on the TkR knee and the hip on that side, where I just got over the bursitis bout. There’s always something, I guess. Oh, to go back to the good young days of being 68, before this whole mess started!