Minimally invasive knee replacement

[lilly_kc]

Demi - it sounds like both of you are on a good path - probably been helping each other out alot, huh ?

The physical therapist told me that some folks just hit the road running with little or no work - go figure!

I feel great, no knee pain except little twinge going DOWN steps. Released from PT yesterday, would like 10 more degrees flexion and they think it will come. Being very good about exercising at home, have also jazzercised couple times. Also never used walker or anything, so that was a blessing.

Will have other knee replaced on march 1st, but have to have a vena filter put in day prior due to possible embolism first time around. Also on coumadin for that reason. My tummy got better too, so maybe it was a bug!

Stay in touch - have a good 2007!(can you even believe it ?)  Kathi

[DemiWV]

Thanks, Kathi!
I am glad your stomach pain, too, is gone.  When did you have your surgery?   I also have some discomfort going down stairs even with my anti-inflammatory.   A nurse told me that that is normal for maybe up to a year.  Doc told me that it might take a year for all discomfort to go, so I don't feel bad.  My hubby hits the ground running, and am I glad!

Have a wonderful 2007!  Yes, it came so quickly; can't believe it!

Regards,
Demi

[hollie9]

I had quad sparing MIS TKR 17 days ago.  I spent less than 24 hours in hospital and walked out and have been walking unaided ever since.

I went to Dr. Coon in Red Bluff, CA.  People fly in from all over the country to see him and he teaches in Europe.

I'm icing, no CPM, doing simple PT exercises.  I had 120 degrees flexion at two weeks.

It was painful, especially at first, lots of Percocet.

The scar is beautiful, you can barely see it.

Hollie

[vholiver1]

I had bilateral minimally invasive total knee replacements. I did well, but there was no way I could have gone home from the hospital the same day. I also had a lot of reconstruction on my legs (knock kneed all my life) so that may have been a complicating factor, dunno. I spent two weeks in the SNF (longer than usually because I fell down a few stairs.)

Some issues, not no biggies. My surgeon said on my first post-op appointment "you're an A+, and you don't even know it yet." (he's very modest - when he looked at my hip first time after surgery, he kept saying "that's a beautiful scar" so many times, I finally said to him that it was really nice to see someone who appreciated his work.

But he's a good surgeon, and I don't care if he has an ego. He's one of the best in the country, and he knows he's good. And I'm really glad to see that attitude in the OR.

[Roy Gardiner]

Hi everyone, 1st post...

I am doing my research prior to the (almost certain) replacement of both my knees.

What is the status of MIS in UK?  Names of hospitals and surgeons would of course be most useful.

I live just outside London in Essex.

Thanks, 
Roy Gardiner

[captainruss]

Any of you who have had the minimally invasive total knee in the U.S. and are happy, who was your surgeon?  Where did you have it?

I am not looking forward to any more surgery, but cannot live with my current situation.

The interference with my gait due to the knee and a lack of ROM is causing major hip and lower back pain.  I slipped on the kitchen floor (slippery) three weeks ago at 4 a.m. and thought I was going to die.  I actually crawled to my bed and waited for an ambulance.  I have herniated a disc, but unless I want another spinal fusion, I am just going to suffer.

Any info would be appreciated.

Any one have complications with the MIS knee?  AF or HO??

Russ

[captainruss]

I guess no one in the US has had the minimally invasive TKR??

The posted video is from 2004 and yet after 8 TKR's and 3 OS, I had never heard of this type of procedure.

Is it only being done in the UK?

Russ