Today I started using the continuous passive motion machine from Allied Orthopedic. It was a little nerve wracking trying to make sure it was correctly fitted to my knee but with only a couple of adjustments for the length of my lower leg I strapped myself in and turned it on using settings of 0 degrees for my leg being extended and a 60 degree bend. It seems as though the 0 degree extension of my leg is not quite enough as my leg does not go all the way straight but I will probably mess around with that on the next time that I use it also the 60 degree bend is not a lot I will jump to 70 degrees next time I use it.
The 30 minutes went by rather quick my mom dropped by to chat just after I plugged it in. An interesting thing that happened was my restless legs kind of kicked in and at certain degrees my knee felt the urge to twitch as they do with restless leg and that really hurt. However I think that the pain is a unfortunate combination of ailments that don't think that has anything to do with how my knee is or isn't recovering. Hopefully as the surgery pain goes away it will no longer be an issue.
Right after I laid down Gale from the Allied Orthopedic clinic called they would like me to come on and pick up a hinged brace since they would like me to start wearing it ( wouldnt it be awesime if they called because they were able to remotely monitor my progress and the progress looks so good that they wanted me come right in for the next big step)
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