knee pain after tkr

[jerryo351]

sudden knee pain during pt and continued pain interior medial aspect.  medic took xrays - all ok.  Soft tissue issues.

therapist can feel the popping of (muscle, ligament, tendon???) during flexion and extension.  It feels like something has to pop over something else for leg to straighten.  It hurts when it does.  Occurs during weight-beating and non weight bearing.  Therapist says muscle may be increasing in bulk but not stretching out causing other soft tissues??? to have to pop over them.  Hard to walk, sleep, sit.

anyone else with similar issues.  when does this go away?

I'm taking 2 steps forward and one step back  with rehab

[jerryo351]

pt is constant and I am motivated.  this doesn't tell me why the popping, snapping pain is occurring on the inside of my knee.  I can't take any more ant-inflammatories,  My stomach is killing me.

[Dr Vinod]

Hello!

The complete success in a total knee replacement surgery is physiotherapy after a successful surgery.

You have to give a sustained effort and with full motivation you would need to do physiotherapy and strengthen your quadriceps and other hip, thigh and leg muscles.

With physiotherapy the pain will decrease and your leg can do weight bearing.

To decrease the pain you can use intermittent pain killers and also ice packs regularly to decrease the inflammation.

If you can do this for initial 3 months most of your pain decreases and then you can relax a bit and just continue some regular exercises all by yourself.

Remember you can take a break for a day but you would need to again concentrate on your physiotherapy.

If you find any difficulty sort it out with your orthopedic surgeon immediately.

Take care!