Thanks to my careers, I've had nine knee surgeries. ALL on the right knee. A couple points I can make here.
...pay attention when the doc is talking and if you don't understand, ask questions. Take notes if you are like me, and forget.
...write down questions that occur between visits... so you don't forget THEM.
...do the presurgical exercises if the give you any, they will help during recovery.
...give as much as you can in post surgical therapy... no pain no gain really applies here, to a point. Don't over do it.
...if they tell you don't do something... don't do it. My surgeon was very hot one day.. another patient, six weeks post total knee, skydiving... duh... blew out the knee on landing and tib/fib break. Look up D/A in the dictionary... see his picture.
...just a tip from uncle Jim... if you can, when you can... range of motion work IN a hot tub... seriously. Lol.
.. next step ( to end this post with another pun ) will be to attend a "Knee Class" next Tuesday
