Hips and knees, mainly knees.

Oh no! - I have just spoken to a friend who was to have two half-knees (!?) yesterday but his has been cancelled too. I don't know why they bother having elective surgery lists in the winter!

Never mind - I am sure you can find something better to do on your birthday!

Petallus - I cannot believe you are trying to put a sock on after 3 weeks - I cannot get anywhere near doing that and it will be 15 weeks tomorrow! I have a splendid device to help me with it.

As to the blue badges - it is an anomaly. I have had a broken foot for 2 years but do not qualify!

Oh heck
That is a let down.
Did they give you any idea of a reshedule date?
It is perfectly understandable to be sad about it.

Cancelled again. Noro virus closed wards and there are no beds. I am very, very sad. Understand, but....

Good luck Ariadne. Hope all goes well.

Used wrong lot of emoticons!

Mishap �� Thank you.

Lots of good luck with this - and happy birthday!

Hip tomorrow, with any luck (still apprehensive about cancellations after the Christmas one!) can't wait. My new knee is excellent.

Can I just add a note of caution re physios advising patients to push themselves too hard? My son, only in his 20s, had surgery to repair his cruciate ligament and cartilage due to sports injuries. He was back at work within a fortnight, when I feel he really should have taken it easy for a few weeks. Four months later and still having regular physio, he started to have a lot of pain and swelling in the knee. His physiotherapist made comments about him not pushing himself enough and needing to exert himself more, and upped his exercise regime. A fortnight later he was admitted to hospital as an emergency with a raging temperature and severe infection in the knee - he had to have the site opened up and flushed out twice in the first 24 hours, and ended up in hospital on intravenous antibiotics for 6 weeks. I don't want to be the voice of doom here, but please be careful everyone.

I would be as well.. Isn't anyone/organisation looking into this....Age UK etc?

I felt very aggrieved about that disparity, Katek.

Sorry to hear about the knee pompa. Hope it will be better soon.

AnnoD....didn't realise that legislation was different in England. Temporary badge is a very good idea for all sorts of health issues - DH had one after his heart attack(s) as he couldn't walk the length of himself at that time.

A temporary blue badge would be a sensible idea, but not in England it would appear. Mostly I park in our local Tesco, I use a disabled space and have a sign I put in the window to explain why. Given the number of people that use the spaces without any badge or apparent reason, I do not feel too guilty.

Because my knee was feeling almost normal, I was getting over confident.

Regarding hips, I have always felt the my hip was giving me warning if I was pushing it too far, don't even think about it now.

knee turning

Sorry to hear about your knee pompa.

I had my hip done three weeks ago and you may be interested to know that there has been a recent change of heart over the risk of dislocation if you bend the leg beyond a certain point.

The advice now is to go by how much pain is felt. The risk of dislocation is slight. There is one posture which has to be avoided which involves the knew turning inwards and the ankle outwards, whilst bent. I inadvertently did that recently whilst trying to put a sock on and the hip did hurt more for the rest of the day.

In Scotland you can get a temporary blue badge, but not in England. I discovered that while I was on the waiting list for a hip replacement. pompa - take it easy and watch where you put your feet.

Pompa-can you not get a temporary Blue Badge to help with your parking issues?

Really annoyed today. My knee was almost pain free, then I caught my foot on a step yesterday and jarred it. It is now swollen and painful again. I suspect I have tweaked the medial ligament. Keeping it iced and rested, hope it will heal asap.

Just thought I'd try the exercise bike again. WOW I can pedal it without too much discomfort, a couple of weeks ago it was too painful to get the pedal to the top of its arc.

I have very chunky calves and thighs, so I doubt I get much more than 110 deg with my good leg. Would like to get enough flex to cycle again. ATM I would need short cranks, which are available.

I was discharged with 105 degree bend in the knee! Must keep remembering all will be well.

Mishap, recovery from hips and knees is totally different. Hips must NOT be over flexed for fear of dislocation, you rely on the muscles to keep the hip in place. You need gentle exercise to build the muscles up, which should not be too painful.
Knees still have the ligaments in place and the joint cannot be over flexed. In order to get a knee back to normal you have to flex it way beyond comfort to stretch the scar tissue etc. Every 1 deg improvement involves a lot of painful flexing.

My big achievement, a year after partial shoulder replacement was to be able to fasten my bra with both hands round the back. Sadly, after a setback when I shovelled snow too enthusiastically a few years ago, I wasn't able to do this any longer!

Pompa and Charleygirl that is good movement.

After I had my should tendons repaired last year and I was allowed to start proper exercise I had to try and get it so mobile I could get my arm moving through 180dgrs while lying on the floor.

It took ages and was very painful and the physios had to "nag" me but when I eventually got there it felt like a great achievement.

You have to really work at these exercises as shown There is just no easy alternative.