Patience

I saw my PT yesterday for the first time in 2 months. He sat down with me for 90 minutes, getting a baseline for my strength, pain level, and giving me more tools to use in my rehab. I simply had no clue how much a strength deficit impacts the normal functioning of your knee. I'm not dumb, it's just that for sooo long the emphasis was on the fact that I couldn't bend my leg that I thought getting rid of that scar tissue and getting my ROM back would be the hardest part after the surgery. I achieved full ROM about 3 months after the surgery last October. After a year, I am still struggling mightily to get my muscle back. This causes no end of difficulties, as I am still not able to *use* all that wonderful bend! I love, love, love the fact that I can feel my calf on the back of my thigh again when I bend. I marvel that I am so lucky to not have the major patellar tracking problems that often accompany AF. But...