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Scar tissue after knee replacement

Joint Replacements | Last Active: Oct 10 8:31am | Replies (1550)

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Totally agree with this! I was really ready to “get going” on home PT as soon as my surgery was over. However, I couldn’t tolerate the pain meds and then they told me to just take Tylenol Extra Strength which did nothing for the pain. When the home PT would come in, it was so difficult for me to do the exercises due to pain. The pain was horrible! I was so afraid of developing scar tissue because I couldn’t do the exercises! Once I got to outside PT, I felt like I made some strides, but I can tell that I still have some scar tissue in there. My advice to anyone is that if you can tolerate the pain meds, start doing PT in your home right away and then go to an outside site for PT. If you can do this immediately, you will avoid scar tissue building up.

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Thank you for sharing your experience. Yeah the instructions are to take pain meds about one hour before PT to make it less painful. But some people do have negative reaction to what I assume in your case were narcotics. I'm really sorry.

My Dr. also prescribed Celebrex to cut inflammation and pain. Tylenol works ok later, when the immediate pain has subsided, but it's not gonna do much right after surgery.

I hope you're better friend.

Joe