It's funny how my exercises are labeled as stretching. I mean... really... when was the last time you had to stretch in order to bend your knee?
Anyways... I've been making continued progress (praise God!) and they took away my CPM machine because it only helps to about 120 degrees.
On Thursday I was at (drumroll please)
125 degrees!
Three days before that I was at 117.
In the past the progress was at about 1 degree a day. This is 2 or 3 per day!
Also, last week I finally was able to peddle all the way around on the bike. Up until then I would just go about half way creating sort of a half-circle because I couldn't bend my knee enough to make it the whole way up and around.
Oh, and I'm crutchless!
So, I try to bike every day at home now. That seems to really help loosen things up.
Then I sit on the floor and pull on my ankle to stretch as far as I can go.
Here is what I did tonight.
I have a very curious helper.
I haven't bent this far since December 16th!
Hopefully I will be saying the same thing every day from here on out.
Right now I'm trying hard to work on the bending and not worrying a whole lot about strength. The bending is what will prevent the scar tissue from forming again. I've already had a sick feeling that it may be forming. The one P.T. assistant even said that he felt the same way.
My itchy leg finally resolved itself, but now I have an iritation on the knee. It is small and doesn't bother me at all, but it looks like blisters. Actually, it looks exactly like poison.
The therapist recommended that I try not to wear jeans... ok???
Tomorrow I see the doc again.
I have a feeling that he will be very happy with the bending progress, but maybe not so much with the strength. Oh well. I'm happy with things and I'm finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.
