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Thursday, 17 May 2012

Hardware Removal Experience

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*Warning - long, rambling post coming up! Well the deed is done and the pins are out! So far, so good, relatively little pain and getting ...
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012

Hardware Removal "Eve"

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Hmmm, well this is my last night with a knee full of metal! Got my hospital bag packed this afternoon, ordered the shopping in to cover the ...
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Friday, 11 May 2012

Getting a Switch Stick Walking Cane

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I never thought I would see the day when I would actually be excited to open a parcel that contained a walking stick! Ha, well today I got m...
Thursday, 10 May 2012

Hardware Removal Surgery Scheduled

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So on 25th April, the specialist decided that the pins need to come out! He thinks that I've progressed "better than I thought you ...
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Tuesday, 17 April 2012

Back to Work

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Yesterday was "back to work" day! Starting a phased return over a month. 50% for 2 weeks, 60% for 1 week, 80% for 1 week, then bac...
Wednesday, 4 April 2012

Shifting Pins

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The problem with this knee injury is that when one problem starts to get better, another one raises its head! Over the past few weeks, I...
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Stage Two Exercises

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Increasing the strengthening exercises mostly involved just building up the stage one exercises by increasing the number of holds and repeti...
Wednesday, 14 March 2012

MUA Cancelled, Hardware Removal Postponed

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Well the jury is out on the MUA and my doctor has decided that it doesn't need to go ahead. He feels that although my Range of Movement ...
Friday, 9 March 2012

Squidoo-ing Knee Injuries

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Dealing With a Broken Knee Cap Filling in my time since I've been off work by experimenting with blogging and other forms of online wr...
Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Considering Manipulation Under Anesthesia (MUA)

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13 Weeks Post Op - Quad Atrophy After three weeks on the Physio rolling program, my range of motion had increased from 48 degrees to 72 d...
Monday, 5 March 2012

The Straight Leg Raise Challenge

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A few weeks ago, one of the physio therapists I saw told me that until I could do a straight leg lift, I wouldn't be able to begin to th...
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Wednesday, 22 February 2012

3 Months Post-Op Update

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After I got the walking frame, more physio cancellations held me up for a while, but eventually I was seen by a senior therapist. She tweake...
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Saturday, 28 January 2012

Progression (or Regression?) to a Zimmer Walking Frame

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After a week of rubbish attempts at walking without my splint I finally got to see my physio. She confirmed that there is a slow progress wi...
Friday, 20 January 2012

More Tips .....

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Gel Ice Packs I'd bought these a couple of weeks back after reading about them and anticipating that I may need them after my physio se...

Knee Geeks

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Knee Geeks I came across this website shortly after my accident and had been reading it for several weeks. Left to my own devices when my...
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First Steps in My New Hinge Brace

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This week began with the news that my physio appointment was cancelled and I would have to wait over a week for the next one. I was immediat...
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Friday, 13 January 2012

Tips

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I am coming across little things each day that help me either with my physio routine or with stuff generally. So I though I would set up a p...
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Thursday, 12 January 2012

6 Week Check Up

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Yesterday was my 6 week check up with the hospital. The X Ray showed good results and I was told the fracture has healed well. X Ray sho...
Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Early Stage Rehabilitation Exercises

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These are the exercises I've been given to do so far. All of them are carried out sitting upright in bed with my back supported and my...

Starting Knee Bends

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4 January 2012 The second physio session was quicker than the first. Some progress with my ankle flexes and related calf muscle strength. ...
Saturday, 7 January 2012

The First Physio Therapy Session

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30 December 2011 Four weeks and four days after my surgery I went to meet my physio therapist for the first time. The session took over an...

Getting Around in a Splint

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So for the next 3 weeks I split my time between bed, sofa and laps of the living room to keep me moving. Walking on the crutches was slow an...
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Wednesday, 4 January 2012

From Cast to Splint and Staple Removal

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14 December 2011 "Having staples removed is always fun" was a quote posted on my Facebook page! Well, I guess I was about to fin...

First Orthopedic Checkup

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7 December 2011 A short visit to see the orthopedic knee specialist at my local hospital. The hospital system was unable to open the files...
Tuesday, 3 January 2012

Surgery and after ...

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28 November 2011 At 10am the next morning I was taken to the operating theatre. The surgery lasted 2 hours. My shattered knee cap was fixe...
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Monday, 2 January 2012

The Fall

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Sunday, 27 November 2011 Away for a weekend break with my hubby and friends, having a brilliant time! Decided to go and grab some food bef...
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