Knee replacement surgery was tow weeks ago today. I find it interesting at how little has been communicated with me as to what to do and how to do it. Maybe they thought the book would do all the talking for them.
Had a PT session today. Today was a little different in that the last session was heat pads above and below for about 15 minutes with nothing else going on. Today they placed the heat pads and also connected the Stim pads. This time with the stim pads I was sitting up and doing quad sets while sitting thus stretching the hams as well. Well, apparently I was only able to do about 5 minutes of this. I think they started the timer at 15 minutes of heat, Stim pads, Quad sets and Ham stretches. I remember seeing the timer hit the 9 minutes remaning mark Shortly the pain started increasing. Increasing hard and fast. Later they said the timer was paused at 8:25 remaining. I quickly was in so much pain that I was visibly crying and unable to speak to ask for something to relieve the pain. Luckily they were watching and stopped all actions. When we concentrated on just doing the quad sets with the Stim pads I was fine and able to complete the 15 minutes of those.
After that we spent some time trying to get the leg straight. I guess a week of no "official" PT did some harm in not being able to straighten the knee. This took some time to get the knee straight.
What we added this time was using the left leg to help pull the right back to a beyond 90 angle. Did about 10 reps of this.
Finally we had a large pad that applied pressure to straighten and cool the knee. Had to ease up twice due to the pain but got through it.
Hopefully Wednesday will be a better session.
