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← Return to Limited ROM 5 years after TKR
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Hi @roknrol101 - First, welcome to Connect! I'm glad you found this group. Great people here with plenty of TKR experience. I have had both knees replaced - two years apart. My most recent one was January of this year. I definitely think physical therapy could help you regain ROM. Anytime we exercise and work out our joints and muscles, it helps increase flexibility and doing it under the direction of a knowledgeable therapist should just add to the benefit. At the same time, I'm thinking that after 5 years, you might want to schedule a re-check with you orthopedic surgeon just to ensure that there aren't other contributing factors like scar tissue, etc. When you say limited ROM and swelling, can you share some specifics... how much ROM? a little swelling occasionally or lots of swelling every day? Also, what do you think about having the OS do a re-check?
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Hi Debbra, thank you for responding, I had both done 4 months apart, ROM is at about 95-100 degrees, moderate swelling is everyday after standing more than 30 minutes. Went back to my OS surgeon last week, and he says there is no scar tissue, and knee looks great structurally and says that my hip may be causing the swelling, so he X-rayed the hip and it is in need of replacement and I have had some discomfort in the hip area. He also said that a manipulation surgery is out because of the time frame since my surgery. With that Your right about exercising because that is what he told me to continue with, so I am going to start exercising and working hard to get my leg stronger and increase ROM in my knee and start to prepare for a hip replacement.