Wellness

[RespectLife]

@Goodie2shoes 

I don't think any of us that responded to your word choice were offended just confused! 

I didn't catch your humor though and thought you chose that word to represent your situation!

I'm glad you were joking.  Sometimes the written word is harder to get the intent than verbal!  Hearing it said gives addtional insight with voice tone etc.

Hope your pain goes away very soon!

[hckynut]

@sfnative 

Hi Rebecca, glad to see your input on this thread. As you've said, there are many nerves that can be triggered by most any kind of invasive surgery, including all joints and the spine. My invasive experiences with this are primarily from my 2 back surgeries, and that dang Sciatic Nerve.

Hope you have found something that helps ease your pain with your so many issues. I haven't seen much of you on any of the topics that interest me on this Wellness Forum lately. 

When you have time and/or feel up to it, let me know how you are doing. Keeping in it a terminology, I as a lay person, can understand. Think of you often.

I am still doing great, both physically and mentally. Ice skating, injury free for now anyways, 3 times a week, 2 hour sessions. My wife is "getting there", now 4 months post her Right TKR. Can't get her to become more like me in that respect, but hey, I'm usually the odd ball out.   =^..^=

JOhn(hckynut)

[Sammycat1]

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@Goodie2shoes wrote:

I will certainly be glad when my knee has completely recovered. I'm nearly 5 months post op and for the last few weeks I have been having pain behind my knee, hamstring area. I have completed formal PT, had this pain for a short period of time while going to  therapy and the therapist said it was my hamstring. The pain has subsided a bit, but it occasionally causes me to have to grab the wall or something  because I am afraid I might fall. I called the doctor last week and told to ice 3-4 x's per day, hold off on home PT for a week. 

Again it is better and not constant but I just wondered if anyone else has had this problem during recovery. I don't recall this problem when my left knee was done. 

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I have had this problem, pre- and post-surgery. I've got a couple of knee implants myself, and one thing I've learned is:  no knee is like any other, including the ones in your own body. No knee heals the same as another.

Given that, I'd ask your surgeon about the following:

1) In your case, could weakness in other joints be taxing the hamstring or other soft tissues in and around the knee (in me, this was a partial yes--an ankle in the same leg with traumatic arthritis).

2) In your case, could the knee have been so bad that soft tissue is having trouble with the "re-set" button, as it were, in healing (soft tissue taking the longest to heal)?

3) In your case, could this be a back issue?  (for me, partially referred pain from the S1 joint in the spine. I'd had some serious back issues the year prior to surgery. When I seemed to have been rehabbed from them, the knee pain that ultimately resulted in replacement started. The two were partly linked).

One more thing to consider:  orthopedic surgeons watching this are primarily concerned with the joint first, and the soft tissue, a very distant second.  Sometimes a joint is not set just right, and it creates soft-tissue problems in the hamstrings, and elsewhere in and around the capsule There are orthopedic surgeons who specialize in this problem alone.

[Tessa Mendoza]

OP obviously used the word "victim" in jest.  It boggles my mind anyone would find that objectionable.

[GenXmuse]

It didn't even make a blip on my offensive meter. I took it the way you meant it. 

[RedTop]

With my first TKR, my PT was very gung-ho and agressive.   I was willing to try everything, and progressed quickly, and achieved great measurements.  

However, I was a little puzzled with the weight workout, and the need to push such heavy weight with my legs.  I could do 140 lbs without a problem, but questioned why I needed to.   

When I saw my ortho to get cleared to return to work, I had pain similar to what you describe, which was from pushing that weight.   My Dr gave me another week off with instructions to rest the leg.