My initial PT was every day for a week, then I went to 3 days a week for a little over a month. Most of the stuff they had me doing at PT, I was able to do at home, with the exception of riding the bike(about week 3 or so), and the standing abduction using a band. Everything else was laying on the table doing excercises that were identical to the ones they had me doing at home as well. Once I was off my crutches(6 weeks), I was released from their PT, and have been doing my PT at the gym 4-6 days a week. I ride the stationary bike, do the treadmill and then do leg press and leg curls. I go in this morning for a check up(almost 3 months post op).
I was really surprised to hear you say though, about how you'd been feeling since the surgery. I actually felt realy good, and only took my percocets the first 3 nights home before bed as a preventitive in case dh rolled over and kicked me in my sleep...lol. But they didn't really do much for me...didn't even knock me out cause I'd lay there for 2 hours watching TV or reading. So I quit taking them and stuck to motrin and ice.
grossmargin2000 <grossmargin2000@...> wrote:
grossmargin2000 <grossmargin2000@...> wrote:
To those of you who have chewed this same dirt - can I achieve
similiar results self-directing my PT after an an initial period of
supervision? My goal, like everyone's, is to speed functional
recovery and then work long term to get back to playing basketball,
raquetball, and skiing (say 9 months out?) Can this be done? Or am
I still feeling the lingering effects of the oxycontin?
Thanks for reading my ramble! Good luck to everyone out there going
through this and God bless everyone who has made recoveries and are
helping newbies like me.

Moose
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