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Originally Posted by p911dad
My only caution to anyone contemplating this is to do the rehab as a willing and enthusiastic participant!
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This is the key right here. Well, that and having some muscle tone in both legs and arms (for using walker) BEFORE your surgery.
From the hundreds that I worked with in the early 90s, every basket case was either a no muscle tone at all little old church lady who would be about as round as she was tall who just wimped and whined and couldn't have done anything with her arms pre-op even, or had complications like the guy that had both knees done at once, was in excellent shape, but had a severe stroke while on the table in the OR
One of the worst I worked with was a lady who was actually a physical therapist and refused to wear the knee bendign machine (as was the post-op protocol at the time), refused to do her exercises, refused to get up and walk, etc. Of all the patients we had, *she* should've known better.