Knee Joint Replacement Surgery

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Recovery and rehab can be a frustrating experience. Using your knee flexing machine quickly brings you to your upper limit beyond which each additional degree may be very painful to achieve. Here is a fast track method that just involves how you set your knee machine differential. For me it meant gains of several degrees more each time, where previously my progress was slow with gains of one degree at a time. I am twenty days post op now and I am flexing 120 deg in the knee machine. Having just finished my second TKA three weeks after the first I can pass on some more tips that were helpful to me. Having set the range on your knee flexing machine to 15 deg, now set the speed down with the speed control. That helped me push the pain limit further. Next, when the pain is really at it’s max with the machine , use your fingers to firmly press around the knee area. I think this is kind of a smoke and mirror trick by giving your brain too much to process so it eases up on the pain. Another little trick I just found was to take a sanitized bristle hair brush and brush near (but not within 5″ of the sutures) the knee joint…to the side…above….below. That distracts the pain of your knee machine flexion (which should now be set on the slowest speed). This is not easy and I grimace each time I try to reach my goal….but just do it. It’s been just over four weeks and I have both knees reaching 120 deg. (but honestly, some days you just can’t get that but then you can the next …

Short time surgery to allow early ambulation without pain is desired. We show you 1 day waking with cane and 3days free walking.

I have arthritis ALL OVER. My health is poor, but, more than anything, I am worried about the pain I feel all the time. I take hydrocodone and morphine, and I STILL hurt. The pain is excruciating, and I cry a lot. It is in all my joints, and in my neck, back, calves, etc….etc….. It will hurt a couple places, and then later on, I will get to thinking, “the pain MOVED on me”, because i will notice that the greatest pain is somewhere ELSE in my body. It is CONSTANT pain. It keeps me housebound. Sex is too hard on me, as I am “broken down” all the next day. I need knee replacement surgery, and have a bum foot. The cartlidge is wearing down too far on two vertebrae, and I have spurs on my spine. I cannot stand for long, and I cannot sit for long (because of the pain I am in). If I go places, I have to go to the restroom and cry a while, because I hurt so badly. I have not told the doctor all of this yet. Does this sound like fibromyalgia? what is the solution?

I have AVN and for the 3rd time I have to have a joint (knee/hip) replacements. I’m not really freaking out over it but am starting to get a little anxious. What would you do to get over the pre-surgery jitters? I’m so sick of this crap. (AVN is when the blood supply is, for some reason, cut off from the joint, the bones die and you’re left with bone on bone when it dies and collapses). It’s *very* painful!!! Any comments or people out there w/AVN would be very helpful, I’m sure. Thanks in advance.

My partner, John, is 72 years old and suffers from Type 2 diabetes and heart failure caused by an enlarged heart – the ejection rate was 17% at the time of his crisis a year ago but has improved to 40%+. He needs a hip replacement (second time), a knee replacement and an ankle replacement. His bones are eroding and he has been told that the muscle might come away from the hip if he doesn’t have a replacement soon, but the surgeon is reluctant to operate because of his heart problem and says that he will see him in a year’s time. If the muscle comes away John will be left with a permanent limp, but I am more worried about the pain and how he will get around. John is not into denial but is certainly into avoidance. He wants to travel overseas (saying that countries such as the UK and Italy have repicrocal health arrangements), even though he can’t get medical health travel insurance. He still rides his bike and gets up on a ladder to cut the hedge. I am concerned but how to help?

I am having problems with the knee 4 some time, I went in 4 a revision They found it was infected. They took all the parts out. & placed a spacer with anti. I am having a nurse come to my home everyday to run IV anti.along with oral anti.The pain is so bad. I feel like~I’m climing up a wall with it. The Dr. has told me the infection has been there for some time with how bad the infection was. He has also told me it may take up to a yr. to clear up. I did not know U can’t walk without a joint there without falling to the floor. I am now walking with a walker, and using a wheelchair. Looking for someone to E-Mail back a forth that may have gone though this. Please help ! Take my mind off of this ? as I am now climing up walls in pain…Thanks for taking a few mins.to read this.
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