Does it count if I was screaming during the measurements120 degrees is great! Whatever you're doing must be working.
Does it count if I was screaming during the measurements
Screaming is fine, just don't hit the therapist which I was often tempted to do.Does it count if I was screaming during the measurements
I am telling myself to not have a knee replacement after reading thread. I will lose that 10-15 lbs to help take some weight off my bad knee.
I hear you... I read that a new knee will last at most 20 years, so if I can delay the surgery until I am 90... just saying...Be sure to take into account that Rapmarks' experience is not typical. She has other issues in her life that are complicating the process, that others may not have to deal with. People have knee replacement surgeries all the time, and their recovery is a very different thing. Ask KarenG how her recovery went. She just had this surgery a few months ago. I know my own recovery was very straightforward, and I had no serious problems.
Sometimes you may not have a lot of options except surgery. Losing weight is all well and good, but if the knee joint is damaged, if the cartilage is long gone, if the osteoarthritis is progressive, there is only a certain amount you can do. Surgery may end up as your only choice. As I keep reminding myself, just like with a used car, "it's not the years - it's the mileage."
Dave
You will probably lose that weight if you have it too. I lost five alreadyI am telling myself to not have a knee replacement after reading thread. I will lose that 10-15 lbs to help take some weight off my bad knee.
I would try in other knee for sure.I was fortunate to find a surgeon that suggested I first try PRP injections into the remaining cartiledge I had in my knees...45%. They use your own blood for the injections by separating off the platelets and plasma and injecting it...and your immune system doesn't reject your own blood. After 3 months I had a 2mm growth on both knees and absolutely no pain You get the injections once a month for 3 months...at about $650 per injection. Not cheap but no recovery time or weight loss diet. You go once a year after that for a maintenance shot. Sports players like in football, hockey, baseball, tennis are flocking to this program...ask about it.
Someone told me to lay face down on the bed and extend your leg over the end of the bed and let gravity help straighten the leg. He said he used a weight on his ankle to press his leg down even more.If any qdvice for leg straightening I can use it. Getting along, but still a lot of pain that follows awhile after I do much, plus a real loss f stamina
I've never heard that before! My exercise of choice is water aerobics and I do that a few times a week. I think I probably could walk two miles if I wanted to, but my surgery was September 12.Are you supposed to walk two miles four weeks after surgery?
My daughter had arranged for home health care while I was recuperating from surgery. They scheduled every day for four hours, but I changed to once a week. The occupational therapist was here at the same time, and she told the aide to clean off the top of the dryer, to help clean refrigerator and told me to have them clean out drawers and closets. Well I never got that far, but one came by surprise today, and the office said we would be charged for four hours, they claimed it was scheduled. I had her change my sheets, which she did grumpily. She sort of cleaned my kitchen counter after I provided her with rubber gloves, she was willing to sweep the kitchen floor, but no other floors, she wouldn't clean the kitchen sink. Not the front of microwave or stove top. There was nothing else she would do. She sat and texted. I had to let her go home with four hours pay after about forty minutes. I called the office to verify and they said only light housekeeping, this one carried it pretty far, as I still can't do a lot of the tasks she refused to do. What the heck am I supposed to do with her for four hours.