A Physical Therapist Told Me
jannie
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tripletmom83
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Gardening and Total Knee Replacement
Comments (19)I had my right knee replaced in may of 08,and while the recovery was painful for a few weeks,you can get through it as long as you follow the dr's orders and do all the therapy. HOWEVER,my dr suggested i NOT kneel on that knee,like in the garden etc,so i have this little Ames cart i roll around on to garden,and if i get near a slope or something where it might roll,i just stick one of my small garden tools under the wheel.2 mos after that surgery i was diagnosed with breast cancer,went thru all that surgery,chemo and all and i'm back out iin the yard again. My motto is"you won't know if you can do it,til you try" & where there's a will,there's a way!!! Kathi...See MoreBun & Thigh Rocker - too good to be true?
Comments (48)Hi Barbara, I've had similar concerns about position and feeling it in the butt. I'm taller, 5'6", but 1st of all, I keep the foot plate angled at the middle position. I've played around with the other adjustment and at one point tried bringing the foot plate in closer to the seat, but it did not feel quite right. When I'm sitting on the seat with my feet on the plate, it's not real tight, like you're crunched up in a ball, but ... picture a clock, with your butt in the middle of the dial, your back angled at about 10 o'clock, and the top of your knees at about 2 o'clock (I hope this makes sense) - that's my positioning. ANYWAY, about the butt thing ... I've tried lots of different techniques and I have to say I don't feel any of them in my butt like I do on the top of my thighs or the inner thighs (with your feet like a frog), BUT strangely enough, as I walk around during the day, my butt feels much more toned. If this is gain without pain, I'll take it! It did take about 4 weeks or so, at about 4-5x per week to start feeling something in the butt, but it's definitely tighter. I can't get over how well this machine works! Nothing I've ever done has toned my legs this thoroughly and quickly and (a long time ago) I did a lot of weight training. I do play around with a couple of sets of short, low reps and I like to do the frog position, feet & knees angled out, with both my feet flat and then a few sets with my toes up. Re the tailbone, I prefer to keep myself a little higher on the back board - I have a long history of lower back spasms, so I try real hard to keep my back flat and not arching, and keeping myself higher on the back board helps. Hope this helps a little - good luck!...See MoreKnee surgery and gardening
Comments (11)Getting a little away from your original question.........But I need knee replacements too, but have chosen not to get them. I'm 66. I haven't been able to get up from a floor position for years! I tripped by myself in the backyard last year, and had to crawl over to a big stick, which helped me get upright. It's strange....but I actually can't tell you why I can't get up. Nothing feels weak.......I just can't get up! lol! Anyhow.....for years I did a lot of trellis gardening, which was great. But the weeds in my fairly big garden got to be just too much leaning over, and painful. So this spring I've gone to 8 Behlen country stock tanks up on cement blocks. I've had a couple of these for a couple years and they work great.........and no leaning over! If I do need to lean over a bit to weed them, I can sit on a garden stool. I still have several trellises for pole beans and cucumbers. I've also invested in some cordless equipment.......like a cordless mower. It has a removable string weed trimmer in it that you can take out of it's wheeled base to use separately. So now, most everything will be up higher and I can just "mow" the garden floor. I love gardening. I can't imagine ever not being able to garden. But......I've learned to do whatever I can to be able to continue it. Yes, I will miss gardening in the ground, but since that's not possible anymore........it's the raised stock tanks for me. YAY! So good luck with your knee replacement and do whatever you can to continue gardening in a way that won't hurt your knee or be painful to you. There's still so many options!...See MoreDo you lift weights?
Comments (30)I was going to say yes until I read what most of you are doing! Mine are included in a fitness program I go to called "Fit For Life", 3x a week. We have a wonderful set of trainers and a variety of classes. I start with a 30 minute cardio session where we only stop long enough to get some water a couple times. Then the next class is a Cardio Fit class that has kind of a circuit method to it. She usually starts with some lower level cardio to get those who haven't been to the first cardio session warmed up, then we use weights, bands, balls, pool noodles, with cardio spurts in between. That runs an hour with the last being a cool down. She incorporates balance, flexibility, strengthening , and stretching in every session. It is really for seniors as she takes Silver Sneakers for payment but you can also pay yourself if not 65 or if you don't have insurance. The classes are uplifting to me and I have more energy when I finish than when I start. My last bone density showed improvement and my cholesterol dropped 40 points from one test to another once I had started the cardio class. What I really appreciate is that she tells us what muscle each exercise is working on as well as making sure we are doing it properly. She is great at giving modifications for those who have issues with shoulders, knees or lower back problems. She makes sure to stretch and strengthen the areas that us "older" people have issues with that cause I to fall like the achilles tendon, ankles, wrist, and knees....See Moretripletmom83
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