Guest guest Posted July 31, 2011 Report Share Posted July 31, 2011 Just wanted to mention that I am now noticing that at 1.5 years I can kneel quite well on the replaced knee. It still feels " different " but I would no longer call it desperately uncomfortable. When I first started this rehab phase I remember someone writing that they just kept persisting with the kneeling and that it worked to just keep de-sensitizing the knee. So I was determined to to do this because being able to kneel makes lots of activities much easier. So I started at about 4-5 months with a big thick pillow under my knee. I would just try a moment at a time, every day, gently putting more and more weight on it. I've kept this up over the months. At some point I stopped with the pillow and just knelt on the carpeted floor in my bedroom - it is quite a cushy carpet. Now at 1.5 years I am kneeling quite comfortably on the carpeted floor and can do exercises in that position. I am not ready for a hard floor yet amd may never be. But it is really nice to know that I can kneel on carpet - or by putting a piece of foam under my knee. My surgeon actually had a great idea. He said it is posible to kneel easily by getting a thick piece of hard foam and sticking it under the shin, so the knee itself does not rest on anything - the weight is on the front of the shin. This works great for things like kneeling to garden or to bathe a child in a bathtub. Hes aays there are actually shin guards in home hardware stores for workmen to use in this way. Anyway, thought I would pass this on because someone made a commment about not being able to ever kneel. It MIGHT be possible with some desensitizing or using a foam shinguard. Carolyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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