acl/mensicus tear, op on march 04. pt about 1 week post op. pt
twice a week and home excersises 5 days a week. the home excersises
is what really helped. i used the pt to check my progress, get
feedback, and to update my home excersises. the more ice the
better. basically, u cant over ice the knee. so if u have free time
u should always be icing the knee or excersising it. good luck.



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