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← Return to Climbing Stairs After TKR
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Joint Replacements | Last Active: Aug 22, 2022 | Replies (63)
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@ellerbracke I had meniscus surgery on both knees prior to having TKRs. I read recently that they are not sure that they do much good though, and although they did give me some temporary relief, they did not forestall the TKRs.
Happy that you are feeling better, that's a reasonable amount of time. I am sure it will continue to get better, and make sure you stick with your PT at home.
JK
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I decided to have a TKR for two reasons. Long walks were painful and going downstairs was painful. I am 12 weeks out. Going downstairs is stil painful but now going upstairs is more painful than going down, and it didn’t hurt at all pre TKR. As for longer walks, they cause days of no sleep pain. I am hoping this will resolve. On the bright side trotting on my horse doesn’t seem to bother my knee but then it didn’t before the TKR. I haven’t tried cantering yet and I was starting to get a little knee pain in one direction at the Canter.
I am hoping this will resolve but actually going upstairs seems to be getting worse not better, I had excellent physical therapy and can bend my knee almost entirely, though kneeling ion the knee is nor possible because the knee itself hurts too much. I was hoping to do this in a month to garden.... seems unlikely.