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Mako Robotic Arm TKR Day Two

Joint Replacements | Last Active: Dec 2, 2019 | Replies (28)

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@ellerbracke

@saeternes : good news on the digestive front. You seem to be doing well, in spite of being without in-home therapy. I gave up walker simply because I did not feel that I needed it for balance, indoors. I had had arthroscopic surgery on that same knee a year prior to TKR, so both pain/rehab was a “been there, done that”. Well, not quite. TKR took longer, hurt more. But the basic exercises all get back to the basics: repetition, and proper form.
As far as the knee’s range of motion at this point - it is good whatever you can do right now. Would you like to hear extremes? Day after surgery the PT measured - after session - 105 degrees. And, to really blow everyone away, I had 0 extension after 4 MONTHS. Hope that gives you something to chuckle about, when grading progress.
Re. Socks: a bother, but not a problem. Glad you figured out the best way to put them on. September here in SC was still quite warm and humid, so my main complaint was the heat generated by the compression socks.

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Not sure how to “unlike” it. Did not mean to hit the little heart symbol. Butterfingers.

@ellerbracke my dr asks all his patients to use battery powered Vacu-Ease at night and when sitting longer than 20 min so I can avoid the compression stockings. They charge up for 18 hours pretty quickly. He wants is to use them for six weeks. I think the little whoosh sound actually puts me to sleep!

Obviously I did not mean to like my own post! Finger accidentally hit the little heart!

@ellerbracke I'm confused about the extremes - were your numbers good or bad? More later on setback today.