I’m sure this has been discussed before but what is up with me not being able to straighten my knee?
I barely noticed this with my first THR. But this time my thigh/knee is what bothers me. I try to straighten my knee all the way and it won’t and once I let go a little bit the knee goes directly back to that bent position. ☹️
I’m 8 days post.
Hi Dsilk: Don't know about the knee being bent, but I came away from my THR with a stress fracture of my knee. It caused massive swelling for the first month post op and is still causing me to limp a little. I had to have an MRI to diagnose the stress fracture. I would most definitely bring it to the attention of your surgeon. Best wishes. Janet
Thank you Janet92270. I hope that’s not my case. I did notice about 6-8 weeks before surgery my thigh bone down to my knee would really bother me. It’s like i could feel my small bones moving. Yes my post op is in 10 days.
I was fine until day 8, then they said I over did it and my leg swelled huge until skin was splitting. After a week on my back with leg in air, and pressure wrap, swelling went down, and I could start PT again. But the loose blood in my knee made it stiffen like concrete! My week 3-4 at PT was just working on getting my knee bending again. And from the swelling I had patella tendonitis (when the bottom of knee cap hurts like hell doing exercises) I am at week 12 and still have the tendonitis in knee, but its working normal, and I am walking. I have also heard a bunch about knee problems from the severe twisting of leg during surgery. Even broken knee caps, torn meniscus. My surgeon checked meniscus right away on me when My knee hurt so bad.
Make you wonder if they have to rip and twist our leg so bad for this surgery, why don't they strap on a big ass NFL style knee brace to keep it safe??????
Hope this helps
U are certainly correct on that Chuck. Have you even seen the boots they place your feet into to manipulate your leg the way they want to for surgery?
Gosh I hope nothing serious for me. As it is I put off both my hip replacements too long and I surely don’t want to end with problems.
Sorry to hear about what happened to you. Wishing you a full recovery. Thanks.
I did not see the boots, and I don't want to. I avoided watching the surgery on you tube and all that crap. I am a big muscle guy that played football and own a landscape company and a steel fab shop. But when it comes to this stuff, I am a total wimp. I just relied on what everyone told me. I heard all the great stuff from customers, and vendors that had hip replacements. My surgeon, told me 2 years ago you will have to deal with this. When I called him to schedule it. He only told me the bad things can happen. He said you already heard the great things. Even though I am having issues at 12 weeks. I am happy I did it. My kids are young, and I coach my girls softball team, and my younger boy is starting sports, so I decided at 40 to get it done.
But it seams knee issues are very real with this surgery. My other problem is bad arthritis and disk back problems. And my back dr is in same clinic as hip dr. So I feel like I have to keep them from passing me back and forth. Good luck
My surgeon also told me when I swelled and knee stuck, that every surgery is not the same. But for some reason about 1 out of 50 patients either swell or have other issues rejection , infection. He has no idea why, he said My surgery was clean as can be, not a drop of blood on the floor, but I swelled huge. He has other surgeries that were total messes, and those patients recovered quicker than ever??
Oh wow u are young for a THR. I will be watching a video once I’m recovered better. This is my second THR and can’t believe I haven’t seen it yet. I don’t mind gorey.
The best in your recovery!!
you also in recovery. I don't mind gorey either, today I was limping around shop when a employee slit his finger open. Not terrible, but I just don't want to know my body will be beat up to get fixed like my equipment does.
Good luck, lots of ice!
When I had my origiginal THR I had no problems bending or straightening my knee. When I had revision on the same hip my leg was quite swollen and I had difficulty getting my kneee straight. I think the bigger operation contributed but I am also a bit older and had been fairly inactive for several months because of the problems.
I think it is very important that you work on your knee to get it to straighten. Lying on your back tighten your quads and push your knee down (I'm sure you've been given this exercise)
If you can't get your knee fully straight it doesn't lock when you walk so walking puts more stress on it.
I'm now 4 months post op and I think it is nearly as straight as the other but I am still working at it.
If you are going to physio ask your PT about it you may get other exercises.
Mike