About this blog

"New Nees"...a term used when friends have had breast enhancement. I mean you can't go around asking "how are your new boobs?" But asking about knees? Certainly. And so it was born. As a nod to its humor, I use it here where it really does mean "new knees".

When I decided to have bilateral knee replacement, I started searching the world wide web hoping to find other blogs on how people have prepared and gotten through the recovery, physical therapy, and their end result. I found one really good blog which I will link to (Random Thoughts from Midlife), but the very few others I found were only about one knee.

So I am starting this blog, so that if someone else ever needs to go where I am going, they will have an idea about the journey on this road "less traveled".

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Gentle vs Aggressive

Although I thought today was starting off "bad", it actually hasn't been too bad. I asked PT if there was "gentle" approach that we could use today. She said there was and while it wasn't completely discomfort free, I didn't need to sleep it off when I returned to my room AND I wasn't too sore for the afternoon session and so could put my all into it as well. I also iced more often today, before and after PT and a couple more times just on my own. My ROM is 90-3/4 on both legs. Straight leg lifts or partial leg lifts continue to be quite painful and near impossible. I am confident I will be much improved over this week. Interesting how different therapy encourages a different outlook.
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