Re: After my MUA

[Guest guest]

Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us, Devora.

I had my TKR the day before yours, and I'm hoping that I won't have

a manipulation suggested by my surgeon on Monday. My PT says

he won't, but I know my surgeon is a perfectionist, so who knows?! My PT is

measuring me at 100 degrees, but I know my surgeon wants to see

120. I'm HOPING he'll just write me a Rx for another month of physical

therapy. I can already walk w/out pain and take stairs, as well.

Needless to say, I hope your situation improves... And I'm glad you'll

be communicating with your surgeon, too.

Thanks again...

Barb Linden

Oklahoma

-- After my MUA

I had a Manipulation under anesthesia last Wednesday and no wish I had never

had it done. They broke my adhesions in my knee, bent my foot clear back to

my bottom. I woke up in terrible pain with about a 100 degree bend. Starting

the next day, I did PT every day and 3 more times on my own, quite

agressively. We got my knee to 120, but then after the weekend it started

tightening up; I have edema in my calf and 90-100 degree bend ( I had

already bipassed these numbers before the MUA) 9 days later, I can barely

walk, have to ice and elevate just like after my TKR, and feel like I am

worse off.

I now firmly believe that my surgeon should never have recommended a TKR

(which I had Dec 17, 2010) without several months of PT before. I had limped

for years, had shortened muscles and tendon problems, and these should have

been resolved before the TKR. All these problems have kept my knee from

bending. Everything that hurt before the TKR, hurts worse now. I really don

t know what is going to bring back my mobility now and am angry at the

non-holistic orientation of my surgeon. He never even talked to me about the

state of my soft tissues in my leg. He is known for his brilliance at

robotic arm computer aided TKR, but seems to have been ignorant about the

rest of my problems.

I am planning on writing him a letter. Devora