Hello! It has been one month since last article was uploaded. (haven’t uploaded any posts…)
Actually, I had re-operation and stayed in the hospital again.
Did not fall down but could not bend so much even though I went the hospital to do rehabilitation and self rehabilitation in my house. That was why I took operation againn.
However, the operation was totally different from the one before. So I will write about the second operation.
About the operation in this time
What kind of operation?
It was “mobilization of knee joint under arthroscopic control” (so long…)
In other words, the surgery of bending knee.
In addition, the doctor did percutaneous release of adhesions and took pins in my knee which used last operation.
Why do I need the operation?
This picture is after 3 month from last operation(Feb.2020)
The angle of bending knee is not enough at this stage.
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Although it is not easy to see because I sat, the knee could not bend more than this angle.
another one ↓↓
The left knee must bend same as right knee.
It was really inconvenient in daily life because of this angle. It was hard to sit, stand up, move,…
The doctor told me that if you can not bend more than 90 degrees until next medical examination in May, you need to take surgery again.
So I decided to have it.
(By the way, the angle before the operation was 70-75 degrees.)
How degrees could I bend my knee by the operation?
This answer is….↓↓
This is about 145 degrees. I could not imagine that my knee had potential ability.
The issue in this time was keeping the degrees after the surgery.
During in the hospital
The hospitalization period was 2 weeks. In the first week, epidural anesthesia is put to my back to reduce pain and do rehabilitation. In he next week, also doing rehabilitation without the anesthesia everyday. (I called this 2weeks “training camp” in my mind.)
My doctor decided to use anesthesia in this period to reduce pain because I am week of pain.
The life in the first week
I used a wheelchair because there was no strength in my knee due to anesthesia.
I could feel and move my feet but did not feel pain so much so it was easy to do rehabilitation.
A tube of anethesia which was like glass noodle was in my back every time. (the yellow tube in the below picture)
Every time I had it when I moved and slept.↓↓
Anesthesiologists really supported me in this week. In the last operation, I talked them just once but in this time they came my room a lot to check my condition because of anesthesia. I was glad I felt they thought many things for me.
And nurses also helped me when I change my clothes everyday because I could not do it by myself because this anesthesia was put my back. I also felt itch my back because of tape so they put medical cream. Actually, they helped me not only these things but also other things for me. I really appreciate nurses in the hospital. Thank you so much.
The life in the next week
From the second week, I could walk with crutches without anesthesia and could change my clothes by myself and not so much itch.
Rehabilitation was same as last week.
Actually, hospitalization period was 2 weeks plus 3 days. I asked the doctor to extend 3 days because I wanted to stay in the hospital to do rehabilitation more.
The menu of rehabilitation in the hospital
The menu was same between the first week and the second days.
It was total about 6 hours in a day.
Rehabilitation by machine
Training for bending my knee by machine was 2 hours in one time.
The machine is like this ↓↓
In this training camp, the rehabilitation was twice in a day(total 4 hours). You could decided the degrees of bending and stretching knee by yourself. I did it from 0 degree for stretching and over than 90 degrees for bending.
I reported to nurse what degrees was when I finished the rehabilitation. At the beginning of the hospitalization, the degree was about 110. However, when I left the hospital, I could bend 130 degrees.
Rehabilitation by physical therapist
I had a rehabilitation by physical therapist(PT) on weekdays.
He measures the degree of bending at the beginning and the end of the rehabilitation.The menus are electrotherapy, bending myself, and loosening up my knee by PT.
Everytime, my PT takes 2 hours for me in a day. I’m so grateful for that.
I ask him many times if I have a question for example what effect in this training. He always answer the questions until I understand. It is really helpful.
Rehabilitation by myself
I also did rehabilitation which my PT taught me by myself when I was my room in the hospital.
Nurses checked my knee condition especially how degree I could bend. So I tried to bend a lot of times before they came to see me.
The condition when I left the hospital
I could bend my knee 130 degrees by machine and 128 degrees by myself after PT loosened up my knee.
I do not want to take operation again so I will do my best the rehabilitation to recover soon.
See you!!
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