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Hi ,

Yes, I do think they are all different in what they tell you. I asked about

kneeling when I had my 6 week checkup last summer and he told me some people can

kneel and some will never be able to. He said let your body tell you what you

can and cannot do. But it is OK to kneel if you feel comfortable doing it. I

will probably only ever kneel if I have something soft to use under my knees and

a good reason to get down on them. The arthritis before the surgery prevented

kneels for several years. It was too painful.

My doctor also does not use the machines to move your knees. He also prefers

you to go directly home and not to rehab " if " of course, you have help at home

and are able to do so. He also thinks it encourages a patient to work the knees

faster themselves. He tells your family and friends it is nice to wait on

someone who just had the surgery, but it even better to say rather then I will

get your that glass of water.......I will help you walk into the kitchen to get

a glass of water. Each doctor is different.

Congrats on your 2 yr. Anniversary. My next appointment for a recheck is coming

up next month.

Pat in Pennsylvania

Bilateral TKR August 2011

[Norton AntiSpam] Re: I am excited!

Congratulations, Pat! I am two years post-op for bilateral TKR. I had my two

year surgeon's appointment yesterday. My surgeon says I am to avoid kneeling if

I can at all help it, unless I have really thick, cushy pads to kneel on. The

reason being, the kneecap area is the weakest part, and kneeling puts a lot of

stress on the joints.

I wonder if surgeons have different opinions about kneeling vs. not-kneeling

on new knees. I know my surgeon is adamently against the use of CPMs as he'd

rather his patients do the work themselves as opposed to a machine doing if for

him/her.

Left TKR 7/16/09. Right TKR 7/20/09

Teeny, OS, Lakewood, WA

> I wanted to share with you my one last goal before my first anniversary of

> my knee replacements. I figure you are the people who will understand the

> most what this means to me.

> The other day, for the first time, I was able to kneel on one of those

> kneeling gardening things without using my arms to hold me up. In other

> words....I put my complete weight on my replacement knees. I know I could

> not just kneel down on a hard floor right now....but this thing has side arm

> support for getting up and down and until now, I was first too scared and

> later when I tried it hurt. But now, I know I can do it! Hope you don't

> mind me patting myself on the back but this was the one last thing I wanted

> to succeed in doing before my 1 year anniversary of the surgery.

>

> Thanks for letting me share!

>

> Pat in Pennsylvania

> Bilateral TKR August 2010