Knee Surgery

[Turpentine21]

My MRI results came in Tuesday and my doc told me my left knee was basically destroyed. Miniscus is in pieces, bone on bone, severe arthritis and bone spurs. Plus ligament damage. I can feel it grinding and shifting when I walk. I'll be having it replaced in a month or two. Basically as soon as he can get me in. My wife had both of hers done last October three weeks apart. She has done amazingly well. The biggest thing I keep hearing is that you have to keep up with therapy or you will never get your full range of motion back.

 

[Old Rooster]

Keep us posted! Mine is December 3. I'll be pulling for you brother.
In my 20's I could heal up from anything but in my 70's I'm not as confident.
I would think you feel the same way.

 

[M77Fan]

My MRI results came in Tuesday and my doc told me my left knee was basically destroyed. Miniscus is in pieces, bone on bone, severe arthritis and bone spurs. Plus ligament damage. I can feel it grinding and shifting when I walk. I'll be having it replaced in a month or two. Basically as soon as he can get me in. My wife had both of hers done last October three weeks apart. She has done amazingly well. The biggest thing I keep hearing is that you have to keep up with therapy or you will never get your full range of motion back.

Sorry to hear what your knee looks like. Easy to remember what that feels like.

Yes, PT is key. I learned that very early on by way of example. I had my meniscus carved out the old way in 1974 after I tore it in several places. Back then no arthroscopic surgery, they just laid it open and did the repairs, often feeling around in the joint capsule like my ortho did to make sure he got all the broken-off chunks. Yeah, not pretty to contemplate. So it was some rip-roaring pain to deal with. They didn't get you out of bed right away like now; I had to be able to lift my leg off the bed before they would let me out of the bed. No PT people helping solve that. My quads were on strike, and I could not make them fire because of a pain reflex (your muscles resist working as soon as you consciously try because the pain circuit shuts them down, weird). Well I did figure out a way, and made it into PT. My example: there there was a young gal who had torn probably her ACL in a water skiing accident. She had had reparative surgery a month or more before, and had refused to do PT because it hurt. Her knee was frozen extended straight and she could not bend it even with help. She had new surgery the same day I did to surgically stretch it so that it could bend. That gal was a convert the second time around and worked her derriere off in PT after that seriously painful forced stretching/bending. A convincing object lesson for me in my rehab! That has remained a reminder through several repairs and later replacements. You gotta do the work.

Best of luck. Your timing should be good for getting back at it next hunting season.