Recovery and rehab can be a frustrating experience. Using your knee flexing machine quickly brings you to your upper limit beyond which each additional degree may be very painful to achieve. Here is a fast track method that just involves how you set your knee machine differential. For me it meant gains of several degrees more each time, where previously my progress was slow with gains of one degree at a time. I am twenty days post op now and I am flexing 120 deg in the knee machine. Having just finished my second TKA three weeks after the first I can pass on some more tips that were helpful to me. Having set the range on your knee flexing machine to 15 deg, now set the speed down with the speed control. That helped me push the pain limit further. Next, when the pain is really at it's max with the machine , use your fingers to firmly press around the knee area. I think this is kind of a smoke and mirror trick by giving your brain too much to process so it eases up on the pain. Another little trick I just found was to take a sanitized bristle hair brush and brush near (but not within 5" of the sutures) the knee joint...to the side...above....below. That distracts the pain of your knee machine flexion (which should now be set on the slowest speed). This is not easy and I grimace each time I try to reach my goal....but just do it. It's been just over four weeks and I have both knees reaching 120 deg. (but honestly, some days you just can't get that but then you can the next ...
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Increasing Range Of Motion after total knee replacement
Increasing Range Of Motion after total knee replacement Video Clips. Duration : 3.62 Mins.
Recovery and rehab can be a frustrating experience. Using your knee flexing machine quickly brings you to your upper limit beyond which each additional degree may be very painful to achieve. Here is a fast track method that just involves how you set your knee machine differential. For me it meant gains of several degrees more each time, where previously my progress was slow with gains of one degree at a time. I am twenty days post op now and I am flexing 120 deg in the knee machine. Having just finished my second TKA three weeks after the first I can pass on some more tips that were helpful to me. Having set the range on your knee flexing machine to 15 deg, now set the speed down with the speed control. That helped me push the pain limit further. Next, when the pain is really at it's max with the machine , use your fingers to firmly press around the knee area. I think this is kind of a smoke and mirror trick by giving your brain too much to process so it eases up on the pain. Another little trick I just found was to take a sanitized bristle hair brush and brush near (but not within 5" of the sutures) the knee joint...to the side...above....below. That distracts the pain of your knee machine flexion (which should now be set on the slowest speed). This is not easy and I grimace each time I try to reach my goal....but just do it. It's been just over four weeks and I have both knees reaching 120 deg. (but honestly, some days you just can't get that but then you can the next ...
Recovery and rehab can be a frustrating experience. Using your knee flexing machine quickly brings you to your upper limit beyond which each additional degree may be very painful to achieve. Here is a fast track method that just involves how you set your knee machine differential. For me it meant gains of several degrees more each time, where previously my progress was slow with gains of one degree at a time. I am twenty days post op now and I am flexing 120 deg in the knee machine. Having just finished my second TKA three weeks after the first I can pass on some more tips that were helpful to me. Having set the range on your knee flexing machine to 15 deg, now set the speed down with the speed control. That helped me push the pain limit further. Next, when the pain is really at it's max with the machine , use your fingers to firmly press around the knee area. I think this is kind of a smoke and mirror trick by giving your brain too much to process so it eases up on the pain. Another little trick I just found was to take a sanitized bristle hair brush and brush near (but not within 5" of the sutures) the knee joint...to the side...above....below. That distracts the pain of your knee machine flexion (which should now be set on the slowest speed). This is not easy and I grimace each time I try to reach my goal....but just do it. It's been just over four weeks and I have both knees reaching 120 deg. (but honestly, some days you just can't get that but then you can the next ...
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