More Common a Procedure Than You May Think
This is what tens of thousands of knee replacement patients face each year. When the doctor and PT team are out of ideas, the hit the “reset button”, call for an MUA, and you start your rehab over again. Oftentimes it is not the fault of the patient. Given the traditional rehabilitation tools currently available in most clinics and in the home the pain of recovery can inhibit much needed progress in the immediate days and weeks post surgery. If that progress is retarded by pain, poor PT, lack of patient motivation, then a manipulation is a possibility.
And the culprit is the swelling around the joint which causes scar tissue.
Avoiding a Manipulation after Knee Replacement
The X10™ knee rehabilitation machine and therapy program made the difference for Kathy. She used the X10 knee rehabilitation machine in an outpatient setting to complete her rehab properly. Kathy quickly moved from 89º to 130º flexion with X10 Therapy, and is back playing the games she loves.
Watch the video interview of Kathy (at the top of this page) to hear the story from her perspective. She describes the gentleness of the machine, the steady, pain free progress she made each day, the fact that she was in control of the progress which helped her avoid the fear she had of PT with a therapist.
Kathy was close to needing a Manipulation Under Anesthesia. She found X10 at five weeks post surgery which was in time to help her get to proper range of motion. She got back to golf, back to tennis, back to her kids… and get back to her life.