@Jolly said in Hey, Horace?:
PT works, but most of the time you can do a lot of the stuff at home, not needing as many visits.
I agree that PT works, in fact it's indispensable, if taken for what it is. Again, I have limited and focused experience, but PT for a quad tendon boils down to waiting for the repair to heal, so the connection is strong, then flexing and extending the joint as much as possible to regain flexibility. Like duh. That is the PT for a quad tendon injury. They will hand wave lots of stuff at the PT office, but the joint only moves two ways, flexing and extending. So what exactly are you going to have to do, if you want to regain that functionality? The body is doing the work of healing. The surgery does the work of making the connection that the body will heal to. The patient does the work of waiting till it's safe to move, then moving as much as is safe. The PT office does the work of hand waving huge complexity to the whole process and taking up an enormous amount of time from the patient, and a decent amount of money from the insurance company. Yes, they also do some basic education and hand holding (so to speak) through the process. But no, I don't want to spend the first 5 minutes of my appointment waiting in the waiting room, then the next 15 with a hot towel wrapped around my hand and then swishing my hand through their ice water. A process so useless they never even bother asking you to do it at home. I don't want to do that when I fit this into my own schedule. Waking up early 2 days per week, driving to the office, driving back. I would hope that it was obviously worth my while.
