At this point, I can honestly say my new knee is great. The problem is all the old stuff that connects to the new knee.
Recovery from knee replacement is harder than I expected. Progress is not linear. There is no straight line to “better.”
After a few weeks of rehab and continuous improvement, I started to have terrible pain when my patella, or kneecap, stopped tracking correctly. It seems the muscles on the lateral side of my leg were overpowering those on the medial side pulling the patella to the left where it had no place to go. That took several weeks of therapy with an Electronic Muscle Stimulator to get under control. Things were on the mend again and then I developed iliopsoas bursitis. Iliopsoas bursitis is an inflammatory response in the bursa located under the iliopsoas muscles (hip flexor muscles). The iliopsoas muscle is a group of two muscles located toward the front of the inner hip. The result is pain and a lot of it when lifting the foot or leg—so much so that range of motion becomes extremely limited. Forget stairs—you just can’t do it!
Right now, I’m giving therapy a rest. That seems to be the treatment—if it hurts don’t do it!
I saw the surgeon a week ago to hear something they don’t tell you until after the surgery. “It takes about year to fully recover.” Whatever happened to “We'll have you up and walking in no time.”
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