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Poor range of motion after TKR and manipulation: What to do?
Joint Replacements | Last Active: Mar 31, 2023 | Replies (10)Comment receiving replies
Help me..does anyone have an answer please? I had TK R 2 years ago, followed by Mua the revisional tkr 12 moths ago. Bending my knee past 90° is extremely painful, I have sharp jabbing pains behind my knee when bending . When asleep if I forget a d bend my knee while turning I nearly hit the roof with pain. Surgeon more or less says unfortunately tkr doesn't always work. I never expected it to be 10x worse than before surgery.. I had this procedure so that I could hike without pain...now I can't hike at all. Nor garden.
I did everything I was told...physio, ..Is there any hope? Does anyone else have the same painful outcome?
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Did you hav revision by same dr that did original tkr?
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Sorry for your grief. I found the following article that contained some ideas.
https://orthoinfo.aaos.org/en/treatment/revision-total-knee-replacement
I'm not a doc, but I'd want to be damn sure the prosthesis is installed properly and nothing has deteriorated or infected. The article emphasized weight loss which I found to be very helpful. If my weight exceeds 170, pain increases. Get back down to 170 or below, pain decreases (I'm 5'10"). The second, very helpful idea reqd building up the muscles that allow me to stand on my toes and my heels thereby relieving the knee of some of the workload walking up stairs. My third advance took place after I switched docs. The second doc treated the issues differently, she was much more patient & thorough. Fourth, I just got the results of my MRI which the second doc used to determine damage to a tendon the first doc cut thru during my TKR. I am scheduling "tenex" to see if that will mitigate the damage done to the tendon. Fifth, I use knee muscle building machines at the gym but I don't expect the TKR knee to bend as far as the non TKR knee. Suffice to say, I use the machine to build muscle but both docs told me to AVOID the machine in the photo I attached. Last, instead of ibuprofen, the sec doc prescribed Nabumetone which is easier on my stomach.
I wish I could offer more.