Another great video . I am five months into recovery and I do have stiffness when I stand too long. It usually gets better when I sit and bend me knee all the way under my seat. ROM is great, still pain when I walk. However, no pain when walking up and down stairs. Is this all normal?

will a wedge pillow work?

Great video Dr. Samantha! I am still waiting for my surgery in April 2025 and doing all the pre-surgical classes of yours and getting everything in shape. Your videos have helped me tremendously understand what is going to happen and what I have to do to prepare for the best recovery. Thank you so much for all this preparation.

So helpful Samantha. Thank you!

Well all I can say is we need people who had it done (tkr ) share, it’s easy for docs and nurses share but unless you have had it done you don’t know. I’m coming up on 4 wks post and damn it still hurts like crazy. Sleep is a nightmare, thankfully for meds. Have to get up and walk throughout the day, I’m on a cane. Its a constant ache for me still

Excellent v log and I can well understand. How can we rid of stiffness . Canada

Just be ready to enter a pain amplifier 😮

Doctor Samantha, I am 8.5 months post TKR. I am a teacher so I am on my feet around 5-6 hours a day. My knee gets stiff and sore after a day of teaching. Some days I can't get home to the ice fast enough. Is this to be expected? Also, on days off with little activities and workouts for about an hour, I don't get this stiff and achy. Did I just answer my own question?

Is there anything to be done for adhesions one month post operation

I’m 12 weeks post surgery and I am mostly pain-free and back to vigorous exercise with a few restrictions. I have found ways to really train my legs hard with little to no impact on my knee. The stationary bike set on high resistance has been the single most beneficial exercise I’ve done post surgery. I do get a little sore immediately after a leg workout or lots of walking but nothing like the soreness I had with my old arthritic knee. The soreness is usually gone in 24 hrs. I feel very fortunate to have recovered as quickly as I did. TKR is no joke. I wish you all the best with your recovery.

Thank you so much Dr. Sam. Your comments prior to knee surgery are so valuable and much appreciated. They relieved my anxiety as I am scheduled for TKR end of this month.😊

I had my TKR 1 year ago and barely got to 110. They tortured me to get that far. My therapist would be pushing all his weight on my knee to get to straighten it. And push with all his might to bend it. I would have tears running down my face. I had an MUA and afterwards, the swelling was as bad as after the surgery. My doctor was pretty much disgusted with me. I decided to just do my best and live my life. My other knee needs surgery, too, but not sure I ever want to go thru this torture again.

Hard to do when u have quadriceps tendonitis now. Silly pt gal. She got to rough n chose to not listen to me yelling.

Thank you 🙏🏻👍

I am out 6 months and discovered the knee that was replace is now pigeon towed. What exercise would you recommend?

I had tkr surgery 6months ago ,still now my knee is 100° bending only and more swelling persists. Please advice me what I should do to overcome this.

Been a week since my TKR,My calf hurts so bad,does anyone else have this ? Thank you.

My knee cap was removed in pieces years ago. So I no longer had one. I just got a total knee replacement. I asked if I had a knee cap now and they said no. Why is this?

10 month post and some swelling and clicking sound, but heading out in two weeks for 2 months skiing….ice is my best friend

I have looked and can’t find a video about what exercises you can do if you had a total knee replacement but still have no knee cap.

These are very helpful THANK YOU

Can anyone explain why after six years of my replacement it gets stuck when I get in my car to leave work. I have to physically straighten it myself and the pain is excruciating.. it’s been doing it daily now

Sleeping on my stomach is impossible😂. I tried the side sleep and I turned my knee awkwardly . World of pain ensued.

I just had a complete right knee replaced on 12/23/2024. My left knee was done 2 yrs ago. Is doing better since scar tissue was removed . My right knee is so very painful. Is so swollen feels like the skin is going to split open, an is so hot there is so much bruising due to the fact I am a borderline bleeder. It is very difficult to see if it is red next to the area because everything is so purple and blue. I don’t wanna bug my surgeon, but I also don’t wanna take a chance on having a blood clot in my leg because it is so hot from my tourniquet point all the way down to my toes where I had my double bunionectomy nine weeks ago

I have 2 different implants, knees done a decade apart.

I have tightness in my right knee after a year, got my left one done no tightness...but did get hypersensitivity to the bone cement... waiting to hear from my surgeon after the holidays to see where we go from here. (Had metal and allergy tests that identified it)

6 weeks post op. TLKR. Seeing this video for the first time. Thank you for sharing!! I will be including your morning exercises with my 2x weekly PT and my daily home workouts. ROM 105/0 and slowly increasing. Very active 66 male. Staying positive, working hard. Thanks again!

Dr , Same problem with me .i had knee surgery in October. And my RMO is 90 to 95… degrees…. And my knee is very tight. Please help me

I worry about the docs not being able to control my pain or not wanting to

Omg!! I'm having tkr on January 23 and seriously considering not having it after all the comments I've read

Thanks for the reinforcement. I live in a mountain home of stairs, three stories. I have been doing the side step for a long time. Question is - when can I attempt the stair-stepping as an exercise strengthening my quads and flex?

Yes

This is great information 😊folks! I have been following this plan since day one after surgery.

jiffy knee. this seems the way to go. whtcha think?

Please more stiff/ hard legs and feet

Make me feel more stiff and hard now Please stockings White More stiff

Hello doc ! Post bilateral TKR, my mom has blood leaking in her left knee so doc suggested to stop the blood thinner. Is it normal or any suggestions please

I’m 4 months post op a partial knee replacement. I had the other knee done 2 years ago and by 3 months everything was good. But with THIS knee I keep getting swelling above my knee and next month we planned a cruise. My doc said by 5 months you will be good to go but it’s not. We planned a short hike and plan to go tubing down a river but looks like those are just a dream. Not sure what to do I have 4 more weeks. I put a compression stocking over my knee and it helps but when I take it off it swells again! Back to the crutch? Is that a good idea to take some weight off it for a while?

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I’m 2 1/2 weeks post surgery and the T method is still my go to for comfort!

Some of these comments are encouraging and others not so much but since we're all different so are the Doctors which can make alot of difference in your recovery, you can't use one person's experience and expect yours to be the same way as there are too many variables that go into any surgery , I had a spinal fusion which most doctors say are more painful than any surgery and walked the next day with help from nurses but a woman next to me with the same surgery had been in bed for a week and not walked so I would say that a TKR would be comparable

Thank you so much. My Dr has never mentioned pre surgery excercises. Or not mych else.

I got shot in my femur, and I have a metal rod inside my leg and I can’t Bend my knee after surgery been about a year and a half its healed and everything I just cannot be in my bend my knee fully can you please help

I am up in Canada, 11 weeks since my TKR and still have such major pain & swelling. Here physio doesn’t begin for 6 wks. which I think is a huge setback. I am going to start your videos, and hopefully this will help as I am so tired of being in such terrible pain. I have only been getting 1-2 hours sleep per night since the surgery due to pain & I am exhausted.

Why is my opposite leg hurting as though my muscl😢es are pulled😮

i love your class but i had adhd and you talk too much. you should count softly for us who goes crazy with blah blah blah im so sorry please forgive me.

It's taken a week and a half just trying to get my leg onto the bed . Until some more pain goes , exercise will have to wait.

There is no such thing as a perfect knee...if it was perfect, it would not degrade and wear out... Read chapter three of Genesis to see the body is cursed to destruction due to sin...while if the Lord would have cursed the spirit, no one could be redeemed by the blood of Christ Jesus...

I just want to enquire about how much knee bending is ideal for executing regualr activity just like boarding train , bus and aeroplane?? And what kind of procedure should one have to follow if one's knee bending is fixed almost 90⁰ .. is there any way to extend and increase the flexion upto 120 degree ?? Patient have had robotic tkr 3.5 months ago.. and following regular exercise ..

1 month in you lost me after side kicks no bending with kne happening