Originally Posted by referee54

I had surgery on November 8th---i began in home PT before Thansgiving, and out-patient PT around Christmas time...I guess right now I am at 4 1/2 months---I still have a ways to go and have jined a local gym to continue to strengthen my legs. (My high school does not have weight machines---and, in my younger days, a squat rack would have been just fine---but not now.)

They say it takes a full year to forget that you have "replacement parts." I have two Stryker Triaathlon knee replacements and they sare desinged for active people. I did a great deal of weight training, balancing, and stretching excercises in PT---excer-bands and long elastic bands tied to my waist--I would walk over small hurdles and climb over wooden steps attached to a giant elastic tether. I would use the Bosu ball and crouch and throw a medicine ball at a toss-back 20 times straight on, 20 to the left, and 20 times to the right. I would use a leg press and leg extension/curl machine.

I would warm up and cool down by riding a recumbant excercise bike---thank goodness I can ride the real one now. Like I said, I still have a ways to go, but I have to climb that ladder every day---some days you take two steps up and a step back---some days a step up and two steps back.

Tim C.