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A 6-month retrospective on my TKR
Joint Replacements | Last Active: Jun 12, 2022 | Replies (15)Comment receiving replies
Yes, I hear you! I too have had many surgeries that I have recovered from 100%.
TKR is so weird. I try to articulate the vast differences in it and all my other surgeries- there are so many. I’m 6 months out too. I wonder if I will ever be able to kneel. Will the numbness ever go away. Even my gait is not natural and I do PT daily. Trying very hard to be positive! There is so much I want to do.
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@suecutuli : Sorry, I should have addressed your current concerns more. Yes, the numbness will go away. PT person told me that some people will have numb spots from quarter to pencil eraser size, permanently. I don’t. Numbness went away fairly quickly. Gait: yes, major concern. My TKR knee simply would not straighten out, in spite of doing a superb job of bending. So my PT guy absolutely forbid me to do any exercise-type walking until the knee extension was ok. He said it would just mess up my back and hip, so I reluctantly did not walk. Started water exercise program and swimming until I got the ok to walk.
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@suecutuli: A long time has passed since the post you are referring to. About 3 1/2 years! So: I don’t really think about my TKR knee anymore. It works perfectly, and I treat it like a “normal” knee. Except - you guessed it: I still don’t like to kneel. It is possible, as long as I have some soft padding under the kneecap, e.g. small pillow, triple-folded towel, but I still avoid it if I don’t have to do it. Not sure if anyone ever gets comfortable with this. Perhaps because I have no natural padding, but then again, most people don’t carry extra inches on top of the kneecap. Above, below - but not there. I still don’t jog/run, do not usually walk/hike steep downgrades, but other than that I’m AOK.