I’m two years post TNR. I’ve dropped from 118 bend and 0 degrees straight to 96/6. Hoping to stop the loss and regain some flexibility. Any thoughts?
Are you able to do the stretching an strengthening exercises you did right after your tkr? If so try those. If not see your Dr maybe some help could be given. Hopefully all works out.
If you can get into physical therapy, that helped me. I lost from 130 to 117 between 5 months and 9 months post op. The PT pushed me back to 123 and 0. Still going and improving.
I have gone to PT. Doing the exercises. No improvement yet, Luckily I’m still able to hike and bike and golf. I also play handball. Never did lose the pain on the outside or inside of knee. Just worried of continued decline.Thanks
Try slowing down your walk. Make sure you take your time hitting heel, ball of foot, toe and bend completely. Most likely its the thing we all do to some degree, start rushing through life after surgery. Go back to the basic excercises
I'm only at 12 weeks but pulled a tendon 5 weeks ago and set me back to almost the beginning. Now thay the severe pain gas stopped I've pushed hard in theraphy, but a stationary bike, use weight to straighten my leg. I'm at 5 straight and a whopping 135 bend. Just go back and do all the exercise you did in the begining. Good luck.
On and off pain is still one of my issues too. It is in the same area you described. Just keep exercising it so it doesn’t get stiff to the point of lost rom.
Recovery from a TKR never really ends...you have to keep up with both ROM ans strength exercises. Here are some suggestions...
https://patient.info/forums/discuss/tkr-rom-work-at-home-620053
https://patient.info/forums/discuss/post-tkr-exercising-565527
Hope these help...