I also had my PT appointment today with another pt who was much more knowledgeable which made things work a lot faster and better. One exercise she showed me was to lay on the edge of my bed with my hurt leg on the wall and just let my foot slide down to bend my knee as far as it can go. This one is a bit painful but will improve my flexion a lot. I have been stretching a little bit too so my extension got better today, I was pretty much at 0 degrees. I have 95 degrees flexion, and when I said 100 last week I was mistaken, I meant to say 100 on the other side which meant around 80 degrees worth of flexion. I hope I can get my knee to bend all the way pretty soon.
Another thing I need to work on is quad control and muscle memory. It seems the shock of the surgery has caused my quad to stop working correctly..And because I haven't used it in a few days, the quad memory of the action it takes to take a step is starting to go away, so I need to get that back.
My goals for next week are to be able to do a straight leg lift laying on my back and perhaps walk a bit off of crutches.
good luck with everything. I get my surgery on Thursday.
ReplyDelete6 weeks of crutches? Definitely conservative... unless he repaired your meniscus. Either way, always listen to your surgeon =)
ReplyDeletethanks jared, hope surgery went well for you.
ReplyDeleteand actually andrew he said there was no meniscus tear or anything else besides the acl which is why i found it strange. I have been weight bearing with 1 crutch (8 days out of surgery) and sometimes sneak a few full weight bearing steps and feel pretty ok..so i really wanna try and push it under 6 weeks.