👯‍♀️👯‍♀️Hips and Knees part 4 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️

Fire escape

After my first TKR, the physio plastered every kitchen cupboard door with exercises. There they stayed unread by me. I was in too much pain to contemplate doing exercises and I am fine.

Everybody is different and at the end of the day, it is major surgery and needs time to heal without force to bend it.

As I think I have said before all physios are not created equal. If you find a good one stick with them or move on and see someone else. Ask around for recommendations. A good physio treats you as an individual and if before your op your gait was out of line they can help you get back into balance

I am bumping this in case people have problems finding it.

Well done Charleygirl.

Goodness we are number 1 on active. That makes a change.

Talking of gait…… Before my knee and hip replacements this year, when I wore socks the one on the pre-operated leg ended up doing a 360 degree turn by the end of the day.
I have only recently started wearing socks again, and they seem ok! How weird is that!

When I first had my new L hip one leg felt longer than the other. Gradually I got used to it but wonder if that is the case because I get hard dry skin forming on my R side and my L foot has skin like a babies bottom.
Pre hip hop both my feet got equally dry and hard, now it’s just the one so wonder whether I am putting the pressure on my non operated side.
Spoke to my podiatrist who didn’t have an answer.

Dud you get new shoes after your op? If not, maybe continuing to wear the old ones might be the issue?

No I didn’t get new shoes . That’s a thought, thank you.

ITV tomorrow night at 8.30
New knees and Hips :Britain’s biggest Queue
Might be worth a watch

Will look out for that.

Another heads up for the hip and knee programme on itv tonight.

Went back to the hospital and saw the physio, who was lovely. Dressing off, wound healing well. She is pleased with my progress and gave me a couple of other exercises that seem quite sensible, I will combine them with regular walking and going up and down stairs. DD then drove me home, so lovely to be back and DH has found a cleaner! Keep warm and well everyone.

That’s good news, glad all is going well. Now the dressing is off you will start to feel better .
A cleaner is lovely. I did the same but liked her so much we kept her on. Bliss.

Watched the itv programme on hips and knees last night.
I t didn’t tell me anything I didn’t know but was interested in the part where quite a few seek operations in zlithuania where it costs half the price that it does here. There was a recent thread about this on GN when the poster had been there for treatment ( which was very satisfactory.)

I watched it too. I don’t have any probs with knees or hips yet but my late Mum had a new knee which left her pain free. She was about 84 when she had that and it was marvellous.

I was quite impressed with the people who were attending exercise classes and said it was really helping them to be more mobile and a few had delayed their ops so they could see how things went without surgery.

You would think exercise would make arthritis worse but apparently it doesn’t. Trouble is it’s hard to do if one is in pain.
It’s good to hear your mums new knee op was successful Primrose, never too old.

It is all very well going abroad for major surgery but one should not expect the NHS to pick up the pieces if like some it does not work.

My cleaner is making arrangements to go to Poland next month for a hysterectomy.

My cleaner had her knee op here , but it was so painful she couldn’t bear it .
After months of no improvement with medication , and physiotherapy she went back to her home country , signed into a clinic where she had 24 hour care , and returned after a fortnight a new woman
There’s a lot to be said for the old convalescent hospitals

I agree re the old convalescent hospitals!

I think the poster who went to Lithuania had 10 days at a spa post op and blood thinners for her return journey. She wasn’t on this thread but another …grrrr…. Only joking. 🙃
My first operation was only 3 years ago so have never experienced convalescence. I was out and home in 36 hours for my hip, but remember with pleasure my 10 days holiday post birth of my dd. Tempus fugit and all that.

When hips and knees were first replaced a patient was in hospital for 2 weeks and then the vast majority went to a convalescent home for another 2 weeks. Those were the days!

Oh yes, sounds brilliant. In Germany people can request a spa breaks for up to 4 weeks. Not sure how poorly you have to have been but you self refer. It's called a Kur and I want one.
My dd is off shortly following treatment. It’s all free. Bed and board, treatments, medical checks, everything. Travel too. Wunderbar.

That sounds really good. My personal feeling is that people having major surgery are almost being treated as day cases which is so wrong.

I am very independent, and live on my own but I could not cope with that sort of treatment. Germany sounds fabulous.

I have had 2 knees replaced and I now need a new hip but I could not manage on my own for at least the first 2 weeks.