I got to spend 6 months in a Townsend post op brace with my ROM locked at various points. Not real fun in Florida temps. I wore mine from early Oct to mid April. Then found out in late May that my mfx failed.... I was one of the 20% for whom mfx doesn't work. Procedure was technically correct, but it just didn't heal over, even though I spent 2 months NWB, and another 6 - 8 weeks getting back to walking again, and a total of 4 months in therapy, starting at 1 month postop.
Now they want me to have OATS, and if that fails, nothing else to do but TKR. Cant take 4-5 months off work on a new job, so won't be having that surgery anytime soon.... as much as my OS wants me to have it sooner rather than later.... no choice, gotta eat and have a place to live, pain sucks, and the knee's gonna need a tkr anyway one day, so if I wait it's not gonna make that much difference in the end... except maybe make them decide they can't do it and spare me the procedure and say urp... go straight to tkr...