Rehab – Page 2 – Knee Replacement Resource

Muscle recruitment for cycling: recovering from a knee replacement

I saw this neat little diagram that perfectly illustrated for me where my weaknesses still lie in this TKR leg when it comes to trying to get back to the cycling pace I once had.

Use it or lose it?

Well, this is not news to me, but it is a perfect example of what will happen post knee replacement if you do NOT stay active. I had sudden knee pain last Tuesday. I have no clue what I did, but what is the initial reaction to pain? Stop doing what you were doing. Yep.Continue reading “Use it or lose it?”

Knee replacement paranoia – Who even knew I had that!!?

Smith & Nephew, my new right knee has behaved itself pretty well most of the time, until this week when it suddenly started misbehaving. This does NOT sit well with me, and just exacerbates knee replacement paranoia and makes me think I have done some type major dislodgement or something!

Vlog update: 9 months post RTKR

I can say that this knee is no longer dominating my life, which seems strange because it has done exactly that for the last quite a few years! I also received a comment from an orthopaedic surgeon from the Uk who said that he had been replacing knees for 25 years and he was seriouslyContinue reading “Vlog update: 9 months post RTKR”

Balancing things out post knee replacement

I have said it more than once, the corrections we make BEFORE the knee replacement in order to be able to keep functioning and managing the pain take far longer to re-correct that you might think. One of these is the left leg bias that I have developed. It is how I managed to keepContinue reading “Balancing things out post knee replacement”

Is it possible to be faster with a knee replacement than I was before?

Is it possible to make a knee replacement knee BETTER than the original knee? This is something I have never found evidence to support, but something that nonetheless I have wholeheartedly believed in all the same.

Breaking new ground with a bionic knee

I am on the verge of being able to say I have achieved something with this bionic knee that I didn’t even achieve when I still had my own two knees! Want to know what it is?

8 Months post RTKR Vlog update

8 months post total knee replacement and another momentous thing has started happening this month… just when I thought no more amazing things could possibly happen..!

Goals: should a knee replacement stop you?

Lets get some things straight shall we? Should a knee replacement cause you to re-evaluate your life goals after your operation or not? In this blog I will discuss this very real question for athletes facing a knee replacement.

What does it feel like to have a knee replacement?

This has been a difficult question to answer from an explanation point of view. Joint replacement is really only best understood if you have had one! Still, here’s my best attempt and describing what it feels like.