Lets Get This Show on the Road!

The next morning physical therapy came in to place me on the CPM machine. This contraption basically stretches and bends your legs slowly back and forth to increase range of motion and flexibility. Starting that day, I'd have to be on the machine for 4 hrs/day (which I broke up into 2 in the am and 2 at night) for the next 4 weeks. Although I could control the depth of the stretch, I hated being bound to the machine, and either watched tv or slept through it, to keep from dying of boredom. Physical therapy (PT) also made me get up and begin to walk with a walker in order to gain some strength in the surgical leg. It wasnt nearly as hard as I expected it to be, but it did take some getting used to walking "normally" again, and Im not quite there yet, even a week later. I still favor and bend the new knee the way I bent the old one because I got used to modifying my walk to protect myself from pain.

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