You Got A Knee Replacement: How Now Not To Destroy It?
The subject is worth some internet research, to say the least. I've restricted mine to the kind of replacement I have, a partial in left leg on the tibia and not the fibia side.
A lot of the people who have this same replacement complain and moan and bitch while they heal, which ought to take half the time of a full replacement.
I might have been tempted to do this after Dr. Richard Perry flattened my leg with hard downward pressure on my still natural kneecap. The pain was still acute when he left the cubicle and Hope helped me put on my sock. It still felt like an intense charleyhorse a couple of weeks later.
The operation was on Friday the 13th of February (ha-ha). For the first 13 days I did home therapy with both a nurse and a therapist coming into the house. Christie, the therapist, came for a total of three weeks. For the first 13 days there was no pain at all.
Then Dr. Perry flattened the leg and taught me how to do that myself. This act of violence reminded me of how he pulled me by both hands off of the table in our first meeting pre-op. He didn't hold back. He wanted to see how I was put together in my sinews from bottom to top.
It's quite a bond one forms, much like lasik surgeon and patient, supplicant and priest, shrink and shrunk.
You either love this person or you hate him.
Dr. Perry doesn't want to see me until next 2/13 the anniversary of the op. He agreed with me that everything from now to June will be between my ears and advised ice water therapy as needed all Spring.
The ice water circulating machine that came with the procedure may be worth the price to Medicare and supplemental "ARP!" as Robin Williams used to say.
You can velcro that thin strip of water capillaries to any part of your body.
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Okay, so how now not to destroy the good work while doing Springtime self-feed? Serves are where you've got to watch out. I got a twinge yesterday-- had to put in extra time on the ice machine.
So splay the front foot a bit more than usual. Keep it fixed and turn the rear hip into it. No big push on a recently repaired leg. The 45-degree or more foot splay may allow transition to back foot coming up early to help the essential hips turn.
As Don Brosseau has said, his students get the hips going while doing his figure eight exercises but then forget to do it when they actually serve. I'm starting to lift my left heel a little and then replace it to remind myself.
Don also has said that eventually he likes to see a left foot hop slightly into the court with kick back. I used to serve that way and know that one doesn't sprain one's front knee if it is turning in mid-air.
Me, though, I come from the era when old men never, on any shot, jumped up into the stratosphere.
The subject is worth some internet research, to say the least. I've restricted mine to the kind of replacement I have, a partial in left leg on the tibia and not the fibia side.
A lot of the people who have this same replacement complain and moan and bitch while they heal, which ought to take half the time of a full replacement.
I might have been tempted to do this after Dr. Richard Perry flattened my leg with hard downward pressure on my still natural kneecap. The pain was still acute when he left the cubicle and Hope helped me put on my sock. It still felt like an intense charleyhorse a couple of weeks later.
The operation was on Friday the 13th of February (ha-ha). For the first 13 days I did home therapy with both a nurse and a therapist coming into the house. Christie, the therapist, came for a total of three weeks. For the first 13 days there was no pain at all.
Then Dr. Perry flattened the leg and taught me how to do that myself. This act of violence reminded me of how he pulled me by both hands off of the table in our first meeting pre-op. He didn't hold back. He wanted to see how I was put together in my sinews from bottom to top.
It's quite a bond one forms, much like lasik surgeon and patient, supplicant and priest, shrink and shrunk.
You either love this person or you hate him.
Dr. Perry doesn't want to see me until next 2/13 the anniversary of the op. He agreed with me that everything from now to June will be between my ears and advised ice water therapy as needed all Spring.
The ice water circulating machine that came with the procedure may be worth the price to Medicare and supplemental "ARP!" as Robin Williams used to say.
You can velcro that thin strip of water capillaries to any part of your body.
+++++++++++++++++++++
Okay, so how now not to destroy the good work while doing Springtime self-feed? Serves are where you've got to watch out. I got a twinge yesterday-- had to put in extra time on the ice machine.
So splay the front foot a bit more than usual. Keep it fixed and turn the rear hip into it. No big push on a recently repaired leg. The 45-degree or more foot splay may allow transition to back foot coming up early to help the essential hips turn.
As Don Brosseau has said, his students get the hips going while doing his figure eight exercises but then forget to do it when they actually serve. I'm starting to lift my left heel a little and then replace it to remind myself.
Don also has said that eventually he likes to see a left foot hop slightly into the court with kick back. I used to serve that way and know that one doesn't sprain one's front knee if it is turning in mid-air.
Me, though, I come from the era when old men never, on any shot, jumped up into the stratosphere.
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