Physical therapy sessions have dwindled down to just once a week because my insurance only covers 15 sessions. I have two left before we start paying for them.
At the beginning of last week he order the brace machine thingy to help me bend. It still hasn't arrived.
On Friday at P.T. he started a massage technique to relax the quads. It actually really helped. I was able to bend a couple degrees more and it didn't feel like such a terrible stretch. He said that I can continue doing a deep tissue massage before stretching every day, so that's what I did over the weekend.
Then I noticed that I wasn't feeling a stretch, but more like a wall.
Usually I bend and start to feel a stretch in the front of the knee as I near 85 degrees. But since hitting 90 degrees I don't feel a stretch anymore.
I feel a wall.
It just won't go any further.
Today I had an appointment with my doctor and I knew going in that we were going to talk about surgery - just to see why it won't bend. He had me bend it and noted the lack of progression. Then he asked me to relax the knee, so that he could do the bending for me. He agreed that it felt like I was "hitting a wall" at 90 degrees.
He is definitely ready to do surgery very soon... he actually made it sound like he doesn't expect the brace thingy to work and seemed like he would prefer to just schedule the surgery today, but I requested that we wait and see how the brace thingy works first.
I go back to see him in two weeks and he expects to schedule the surgery that day... I'm praying that something will loosen up in there and we won't have to do that, but if I don't make progress I'm more than ready to go back under the knife to see what's going on.
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