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X10 Therapy on ABC TV (WXYZ)
Jenn Schanz interviews Mary Elliott about X10 Therapy.
In this short interview, Mary explains how The X10 Knee Recovery System™ helps knee patients with a variety of conditions recovery quickly in their homes after surgery. Stroke patients, MS patients, any patients with leg weakness can benefit from the X10.
And the X10 is particularly effective for TKA (total knee arthroplasty) recoveries. X10 Therapy on ABC TV
The Importance of Range of Motion
The biggest challenge in rehabbing a knee is to increase range of motion. It doesn’t come back spontaneously. You have to put in time and work to get it going. Pain will cause you to tense up and guard and resist the efforts to increase your range of motion. There are a lot of different things that we can do to help manage that pain. It’s not just one individual strategy.
Knee Replacement Pain Management
With the X10, you have a half an hour or longer on each session and you’re creeping up on that stretch. You’re working into it slowly. You’re holding it, you’re letting it release and then you slowly progress. In the first session of the day you’re going for better than you did the day before. In the middle session you’re going for a little bit better. It’s just so gradual and incremental. That it’s a big part of why patients are more comfortable, but it’s also why they actually progress further on the X10 because of the time that you spend doing it. And by not stimulating that pain reaction of the patient, by going too fast, you’re not guarding and resisting, and that also helps you go further. So there are positives to the X10 in the time that the patient can spend dedicated on the range of motion that in an outpatient setting or even in home health, you just, you can’t address. And when you’re in control of a movement of your leg, I think you’re much more calm.
Little Time: Lots of Time (X10 Therapy on ABC TV)
When you compare a machine that is in your home it’s just a different path, a completely different path and can take a totally different approach to your healing.
With any physical therapy you have a limited number of visits, a limited amount of time spent with that therapist. They’re going to give you exercises to do at home. But if you’re trying to do a self-stretch at home, sometimes they’re difficult because you have to use your arms or your other leg to assist your surgical leg to bend. And it’s hard to relax for the stretch if you’re actively trying to give yourself that stretch. So sometimes those self-stretches are not as effective as they are if it’s the therapist or the machine giving it to you. And then also you don’t have the feedback when you’re doing your exercises on your own. You might try to be sitting in a chair and pulling your life back or planting your foot on the ground. And scooting your hips forward in the chair to give more stretch. You kind of look and you think, I think that’s better than I got yesterday. It looks farther, but you’re really just guessing.
The X10 Meta-Blog
We call it a “Meta-Blog.” We step back and give you a broad perspective on all aspects of knee health as with this article on ‘X10 Therapy on ABC TV | WXYZ TV’.
In this one-of-a-kind blog we gather together great thinkers, doers, and writers. All our work is related to Knee Surgery, Recovery, Preparation, Care, Success and Failure. Meet physical therapists, coaches, surgeons, patients, and as many smart people as we can gather to create useful articles for you. This is for you if you have surgery upcoming, or in the rear-view mirror. Or maybe you just want to take care of your knees to avoid surgery. Executive Editor: PJ Ewing
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Two resources for you below to help with knee replacement pain management. Both are email series that we created to help those who need some additional thinking for pre-surgery and post-surgery.