This is the Continuous Passive Mutton – I mean Motion – machine. First day, one hour. Takes the knee from 0 degree extension to 35 degree flexion. Over and over. It’s the extension that hurts the most, in case that was a question you had. Come tomorrow I jabbed to ramp it up to 3+ hours per day, cranking up the flexion according to how I’m feeling. My target after 14 days is -3 extension and 125 flexion.
I would like to be more interesting for you, but I am writing this on a phone, and in exceptional pain right now. In point of fact, though, doing this is helping take my mind off it a bit.
So, thanks for being here for me, weirdos!
Long night ahead.
That neither looks nor sounds like fun. But ya gotta do what ya gotta do, eh?
Hang in there.
My Mom had to use one of those (or something similar) faithfully for several weeks after knee replacement surgery. Not fun, but necessary.
It gets better. Glad you survived. It DOES get better.
Oh Gawd. I was unconscious for this phase of my recent passage. I’m glad I was. Take the drugs and get better sooner.
Nice thigh shot.
Glad the surgery went okay and you are on the recovery slope.
My doctor pal was put in a machine like that following surgery for a pernicious patellar tendon tear. He liked to put it on and go to sleep. He tells the following story:
“I heard a tremendous crash! My machine had fallen off the bed. And my leg was in it! It was flexing and clanking at an increasing rate trying to tear my leg off. I saw it had fallen on the remote and…. and…. It was pushing it’s own buttons!”
Get well. I think you will be fine.
“Mommy, why is that man screaming?”
Like my marines say; pain is weakness leaving the body.
(once you know where the phrase originated, it’s not so trite.)
The machine is commonly used for ortho surgeries, though I did escape it after my hip replacement. Everything I’ve read about it says that I am very glad I wasn’t subjected to it.
Good luck. Pain meds are there for a reason…
It’s not too bad, really. It hurts a bit, but you’re right about the meds. I wait for my bog dose of multiple pills, and zone out to Pandora’s “Chill/downtempo” or “ambient radio” station. I’m usually out cold for most of it.