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Copejunkie said:
Morning all. Knee doc appointment again this morning. Get a shot and told I need a new one.
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RTR...USN (ret) said:
Rehab after knee replacement is a bitch! But!, the better you rehab, the better your recovery and range of motion. Good luck friend!
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I always tell people that IF you are the type to do the rehab then most likely you will be pissed at yourself for not getting it done five years earlier. IF you are the type that wont do the rehab, put the surgery off as long as possible. Oh, also never have the surgery in a VAMC, that one never was as good as the one I had outside the VA.
 
batchaps4me said:
I always tell people that IF you are the type to do the rehab then most likely you will be pissed at yourself for not getting it done five years earlier. IF you are the type that wont do the rehab, put the surgery off as long as possible. Oh, also never have the surgery in a VAMC, that one never was as good as the one I had outside the VA.
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Exactly! My PT said she had two types of patients... the ones who wouldn’t do the work because “ it hurts”, and the type that pushed way too hard. Care to guess which group I was in? 😂
 
RTR...USN (ret) said:
Exactly! My PT said she had two types of patients... the ones who wouldn’t do the work because “ it hurts”, and the type that pushed way too hard. Care to guess which group I was in? 😂
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I keep putting it off. I have to much work to do and I'm stubborn. I've been dealing with pain in it since 1994 so it's nothing new. I know what I will do in rehab as well, I will push it too hard and end up tearing something up. You should understand, After My very first knee surgery (thankfully on the other knee) I walked out of the hospital. I refused to use the crutches. That was when I was 14 years old in 1992. The first surgery in 94 on my bad knee was in September, football season, I did the surgery then so that by December I could wrestle, I was supposed to be on crutches for 8 weeks, no weight on it. But Bow hunting starts in October here, so I would hobble my way out to the timber on crutches until I was out of view of the house and my mother, throw the crutches into the brush and go climb into a deer stand or do a stalk through the timber. It hurt like hell. Who knows, if I would have listened to the doctor the surgery might have worked and I might not have the problems i have now.
 
Copejunkie said:
I keep putting it off. I have to much work to do and I'm stubborn. I've been dealing with pain in it since 1994 so it's nothing new. I know what I will do in rehab as well, I will push it too hard and end up tearing something up. You should understand, After My very first knee surgery (thankfully on the other knee) I walked out of the hospital. I refused to use the crutches. That was when I was 14 years old in 1992. The first surgery in 94 on my bad knee was in September, football season, I did the surgery then so that by December I could wrestle, I was supposed to be on crutches for 8 weeks, no weight on it. But Bow hunting starts in October here, so I would hobble my way out to the timber on crutches until I was out of view of the house and my mother, throw the crutches into the brush and go climb into a deer stand or do a stalk through the timber. It hurt like hell. Who knows, if I would have listened to the doctor the surgery might have worked and I might not have the problems i have now.
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I learned after the first PT session. I’d take an OxyContin beforehand! I could push myself without being in agony 😂!
 
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