Moose,

Thanks for the reply and congrats on your progress. Hope your check
up goes well! Could I bug you for a couple of follow - ups

1. How many days after surgery did your initial PT start?
2. As long as I have access to a gym when I travel (with a
stationary bike) I should be able to replicate the supervised PT
session? What do you think??
3. Lastly, if you remember back to being 1 week out from surgery,
what was your icing regimen? How long, often, etc.....Before or
after PT, both...

About the pain meds, I've always had a rough time with it. Same
thing happened to me 4 years ago with right shoulder surgery. It's a
shame, because I really wish I could enjoy narcotics more than I do :-
)

Thanks Moose. I appreciate your info and feedback.

GM



--- In kneesurgeryforum@yahoogroups.com, Moose <TronWife@y...> wrote:
> 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).
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> 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.
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> grossmargin2000 <grossmargin2000@y...> wrote:
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> Moose
> "The main reason Santa is so jolly is because,
> he knows where all the bad girls live."
> -George Carlin-
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