Posted 30 September 2008 - 08:28 PM
I will be honest that it is no bed of roses. But, everyone I have ever seen go through it says it is worth it. The knee won't quite be back to normal, but close. Now keep in mind that my data is at least a decade old. My mother fell on some rough ground in 1964 and injured her knee while rushing to the scene of an auto accident involving my late brother-in-law (he was not badly injured, the wreck looked bad with on car sitting on top of his which was on the passenger side). The went through several surgeries (about every other year) and cortisone injections.
FInally they decided to do the replacement, in the summer of 1974 to the best of my memory. She had the surgery early in the summer so she would be ready for school in the fall (she was a teacher). I was visiting my parents about a month later and she dropped something in the kitchen. She called for me and I went in to help her. This had become the normal routine over the previous years as she couldn not bend her knee very far, so when she dropped something she had to ask for help. I started to go for it and she stopped me and she said "Watch". Then she did a kneebend, picking up the item. She was partway through her physical rehabilitation, and she was very diligent about exercising her knee.
The natural knee has about 135 degrees of motion, the artifical knee has about 90. But,l it works and once the muscles are back to full strength, pain free. I have a friend here who is a retired mailman, and who has had both knees done, and while at it, they straightened his bow legs. He now walks with a cane, not from the knees, but from a stroke. His were done about 10 years ago.
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