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@Horace said in Norco dose frequency:
@George-K said in Norco dose frequency:
@Horace, update?
Slow progress, thanks George. It's my understanding that right about now is where the repair is most fragile - the sutures have partially dissolved and are no longer as strong, but the healing hasn't started to any significant degree so you don't have that holding things together either. So I'm trying to avoid any overconfidence and am still being extremely careful. Took off the dressing last night for my first post-surgery shower and it's pretty ugly. I'll have another 6" vertical scar on my knee, a matching pair now. But the pain isn't bad anymore, as long as I don't move. I'm looking forward to being able to sleep on my side again, since I'm a side sleeper, but the pain doesn't allow for it currently.
Just remember...
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@Horace said in Norco dose frequency:
@George-K said in Norco dose frequency:
@Horace, update?
Slow progress, thanks George. It's my understanding that right about now is where the repair is most fragile - the sutures have partially dissolved and are no longer as strong, but the healing hasn't started to any significant degree so you don't have that holding things together either. So I'm trying to avoid any overconfidence and am still being extremely careful. Took off the dressing last night for my first post-surgery shower and it's pretty ugly. I'll have another 6" vertical scar on my knee, a matching pair now. But the pain isn't bad anymore, as long as I don't move. I'm looking forward to being able to sleep on my side again, since I'm a side sleeper, but the pain doesn't allow for it currently.
Just remember...
Link to videoLol
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@George-K said in Norco dose frequency:
So, how're you doing?
Getting better slowly, thanks George. I can swing my leg up using my other leg as support now, so no need for my wife's 3 AM help with that. Next milestone will be taking the brace off and walking the dogs, which will be in 2.5 weeks if everything goes to plan. I can flex the whole quad now, rather than just the inner part like before the surgery, so I'm optimistic that the repair is intact. (I only flex it very carefully and lightly of course.)
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Good news.
Tendons, as I've said, need to "scar down" to heal and maintain integrity. Their blood supply sucks. If you exercise or stretch them too soon, you risk disrupting them all over, with a much less satisfactory prognosis for healing.
Take it easy.
Follow your doc's instructions. TO THE LETTER.
Thanks for the update/
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Good news.
Tendons, as I've said, need to "scar down" to heal and maintain integrity. Their blood supply sucks. If you exercise or stretch them too soon, you risk disrupting them all over, with a much less satisfactory prognosis for healing.
Take it easy.
Follow your doc's instructions. TO THE LETTER.
Thanks for the update/
@George-K said in Norco dose frequency:
Good news.
Tendons, as I've said, need to "scar down" to heal and maintain integrity. Their blood supply sucks. If you exercise or stretch them too soon, you risk disrupting them all over, with a much less satisfactory prognosis for healing.
Take it easy.
Follow your doc's instructions. TO THE LETTER.
Thanks for the update/
Yep, I'm being careful. Probably more careful than I was with the other quad rupture, which healed ok. But then again this one was 5 weeks old by the time the surgeon got to it, so the muscle function after full healing is yet to be seen. My surgeon mentioned that that may be a complication.
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@George-K said in Norco dose frequency:
Good news.
Tendons, as I've said, need to "scar down" to heal and maintain integrity. Their blood supply sucks. If you exercise or stretch them too soon, you risk disrupting them all over, with a much less satisfactory prognosis for healing.
Take it easy.
Follow your doc's instructions. TO THE LETTER.
Thanks for the update/
Yep, I'm being careful. Probably more careful than I was with the other quad rupture, which healed ok. But then again this one was 5 weeks old by the time the surgeon got to it, so the muscle function after full healing is yet to be seen. My surgeon mentioned that that may be a complication.
@Horace said in Norco dose frequency:
Yep, I'm being careful. Probably more careful than I was with the other quad rupture, which healed ok. But then again this one was 5 weeks old by the time the surgeon got to it, so the muscle function after full healing is yet to be seen.
Mrs. George had a rotator cuff tear (it's the same physiology). The surgeon couldn't get to it for a long time (10 weeks? Perhaps longer). By the time surgery was done, there was basically no tendon to repair and he was very pessimistic.
He was right in his pessimism.
But that was shoulder, not knee. And the time frame was different.
And it was a REPEAT injury.
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@horace Update?
@taiwan_girl said in Norco dose frequency:
@horace Update?
Hi TG, thanks for asking. Progress is slow and steady. I had my first follow up appt with the physician's assistant last week, where they took the staples out of the incision. There were 33. Physical therapy is set to start two weeks from now.
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@taiwan_girl said in Norco dose frequency:
@horace Update?
Hi TG, thanks for asking. Progress is slow and steady. I had my first follow up appt with the physician's assistant last week, where they took the staples out of the incision. There were 33. Physical therapy is set to start two weeks from now.
@Horace said in Norco dose frequency:
There were 33.
Why am I not surprised you counted, LOL.
Physical therapy is set to start two weeks from now.
Sounds like the appropriate timeframe, about 4 weeks or so to let the tendon scar down and heal. Premature exercise can ruin the healing/scarring.
You've danced this dance before, and you know that PT can be a bitch. Please keep us posted.
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Oh, I’m hobbling along thanks George. I have no balance, strength, or range of motion, but it gets a little better every day. Today is my first physical therapy appt. Not looking forward to that twice a week tedium that I’ll know the whole time I could just as easily be doing at home. But experts, so shut up. The knee bends one way and I need to stretch it out so it bends more that way. Last time with my other knee I lost patience for going in after a few weeks. Maybe this time I’ll stick with it. But last time, I think skipping made no long term difference.
Education is extremely important.
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Oh, I’m hobbling along thanks George. I have no balance, strength, or range of motion, but it gets a little better every day. Today is my first physical therapy appt. Not looking forward to that twice a week tedium that I’ll know the whole time I could just as easily be doing at home. But experts, so shut up. The knee bends one way and I need to stretch it out so it bends more that way. Last time with my other knee I lost patience for going in after a few weeks. Maybe this time I’ll stick with it. But last time, I think skipping made no long term difference.
@Horace said in Norco dose frequency:
Oh, I’m hobbling along thanks George. I have no balance, strength, or range of motion, but it gets a little better every day. Today is my first physical therapy appt. Not looking forward to that twice a week tedium that I’ll know the whole time I could just as easily be doing at home. But experts, so shut up. The knee bends one way and I need to stretch it out so it bends more that way. Last time with my other knee I lost patience for going in after a few weeks. Maybe this time I’ll stick with it. But last time, I think skipping made no long term difference.
Helps if the therapist is good looking.
My last one was a stone cold fox.
I knew her grandpa.
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My first visit was a smashing success. I got there 30 minutes early to fill out paperwork, as they instructed, and I completed it in 10. Missed an important work meeting for it. Then I waited for another 30 minutes, 10 minutes past my scheduled start time, when the reception guy came up and sheepishly asked me if I had the referral paperwork from my doctor. I told him I did not, and asked him why he wanted to see it. It was because the physical therapist assigned to me had no idea what my injury was. No information whatsoever about her new patient. I let the reception guy know that I could let her know what the injury was. So I was finally seen, 20 minutes late, and she gave me exercises to do, all of which involved stretching the joint to a fuller range of motion, and flexing the quadriceps to straighten the leg. Hm. It's almost like that's all there is to possibly do. Anyway, A+ appointment, grading on a curve for PT. Will go again.
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My first visit was a smashing success. I got there 30 minutes early to fill out paperwork, as they instructed, and I completed it in 10. Missed an important work meeting for it. Then I waited for another 30 minutes, 10 minutes past my scheduled start time, when the reception guy came up and sheepishly asked me if I had the referral paperwork from my doctor. I told him I did not, and asked him why he wanted to see it. It was because the physical therapist assigned to me had no idea what my injury was. No information whatsoever about her new patient. I let the reception guy know that I could let her know what the injury was. So I was finally seen, 20 minutes late, and she gave me exercises to do, all of which involved stretching the joint to a fuller range of motion, and flexing the quadriceps to straighten the leg. Hm. It's almost like that's all there is to possibly do. Anyway, A+ appointment, grading on a curve for PT. Will go again.
@Horace said in Norco dose frequency:
My first visit was a smashing success. I got there 30 minutes early to fill out paperwork, as they instructed, and I completed it in 10. Missed an important work meeting for it. Then I waited for another 30 minutes, 10 minutes past my scheduled start time, when the reception guy came up and sheepishly asked me if I had the referral paperwork from my doctor. I told him I did not, and asked him why he wanted to see it. It was because the physical therapist assigned to me had no idea what my injury was. No information whatsoever about her new patient. I let the reception guy know that I could let her know what the injury was. So I was finally seen, 20 minutes late, and she gave me exercises to do, all of which involved stretching the joint to a fuller range of motion, and flexing the quadriceps to straighten the leg. Hm. It's almost like that's all there is to possibly do. Anyway, A+ appointment, grading on a curve for PT. Will go again.
Wow. Does not inspire confidence, does it? At least you know what the exercises will be, so if they continue wasting your time, you can do the exercises in the waiting room.
I can see why you would rather just do them at home.
