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How long after TKR will it continue to hurt to do stairs?
Joint Replacements | Last Active: Aug 18, 2024 | Replies (31)Comment receiving replies
@mrnomad - I am not thin, or sedentary. I'm normal weight, maybe a few pounds over. I too walk and/or exercise every day. I am wondering, could the stairmaster be overtaxing your knee? Before my knee developed osteoarthritis,
I was active at the gym and used stairmaster. It was hard for me to do then, with a healthy knee. So for a knee that's still recovering from surgery, it may be too much for you right now. I've heard TKR patients say it took a year or more for their knee to really feel normal again.
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Thank you for your comments and my thanks to Mayo for organizing this forum so people can share their experiences & learn from one another. I've always been active, my entire life, used to play competitive racquetball. For two weeks in Feb I avoided the stairmaster but that did nothing to mitigate the pain from a flight of stairs. To gauge the impact of weight I climbed a flight of stairs and then repeated wearing 5lbs of weight around my waist. I found the diff in pain to be remarkable. A better exercise alternative is swimming but I've come to accept that pain will be with me bec I refuse to give up exercise. If I can lose more weight it should get better. Eventually, the technology will improve but I'm just thankful I didn't TKR both knees. My suggestion to anyone reading is to explore the alternatives which include, but are not limited to, loss of weight, Hyaluronic Acid, PRP, stem cell, cortisone and dietary changes. If I had it to do over again, I'd sooner go to a weight loss Boot Camp for a month than endure the grief that followed my TKR.