It has been 5 months now

Last week I ran a 5k, the first real physical thing I've done since the injury. I survived, and didn't walk in any part of the run. Though my time was rather slow (34min/30sec) I did my goal of no walking. I iced immediately after the run using ice from the water bottle tubs. The next day I noticed my knee a bit swollen so I iced again, but no significant pain. I still have pain when I stand up quick after sitting for long spells (such as driving distances, or at my desk at work). I've been biking and plan to do more running but no 5k's yet. I'd guess doing the 5k last weekend was a bit premature, but my knee survived ok.

4+ Months post op now

This week the PT had me start jogging on a tread mill with my brace. Good to finally feel like I'm moving again, but I'm also feeling more pain in my knee when I try to straighten/hyperextend then it was a couple weeks ago. My doc says I need to stretch it more to get the -4 degrees my good leg is (op knee was -2 last checked), but at this point there seems to be a lot of pain when I try to stretch. After sitting for periods of time I'm feeling pain when I get up and walk to where I'm limping a bit, then as I walk it gets better.
The doc feels I'm on schedule to do normal sports (with brace) after 6 months..... I'm hoping so. Going to try to do as much jogging as possible.

June 17, 2010

The PT is having me do some new exercises the past few visits, including the elliptical. I'm still having some swelling above the knee and pain when I stand after sitting for a period of time, but hope it goes away eventually. Ordered my Donjoy extreme armor knee brace that I am suppose to use for any future athletic type things. Sure will be glad when October rolls around. I'm hoping to be done with all this by then.

12 weeks post op!

Not much has really changed over the past few weeks, or so it seems. My flex last measured at 152 and hyperextention at -1. The doc wants my hyperextention to be -4 but personally I really don't care and don't want to go through too much pain to achieve this. The PT has me doing more and more activity with 3lb weights on the legs and the bike is now on resistance 6.
Still swelling going on and I've increased the ice usage but it doesn't seem to do anything?? Just have to be patient I guess.

May 25th.......pain.

Trying to regain a few degrees of hypertension is painful. I also seem to have sudden pain when I stand up after sitting for a period of time, either driving or at my desk. The PT says it most likely is the patellar, but not sure. I missed PT all last week and my workouts sure suffered. My leg was shaky during the leg lifts with weights and felt like I took a backwards turn on my progress. I hope it goes better Thursday.

9 Week report

It feels like the same story now week after week. I keep going to the PT 2 times a week, though they did add a few new things to my list of "to do" items, but the leg lifts (front-side-back) are sure getting to be a pain with leg weights. My extension is still -1 degree and bent is now 148. I have to start working on my leg to get it to -4 in the next 3 weeks. I need to also ice more to get the swelling down. If I can do that it should feel better...

More swelling..

Tuesday I asked my PT if we were going to do steps as per the schedule. After PT that day my knee was a bit more sore then usual and the next couple days the knee was swelling more then it had been. Thursday my PT was scaled back a bit to see if we can get the swelling back down, and she was asking me to ice more often then I have been. Usually I just ice at night, but I'll try to do it more if I can but it is tough with my schedule.