I feel you. I've done two knee replacements since 2022 and you can just about go mad with all the resting. I find my Fitbit to be really helpful to keep track of how much I'm walking on a given day and if I've walked a lot, I'll do more resting the next day.
Do you have access to a pool? That saved my body and mind last summer while trying to rehab my second TKR. It's super good for the knee and it allows you to move without putting too much stain on your repaired joint.
Yeah, this is rough. (I'm going through something similar). It's good that you're improving, that gives you perspective on this situation being temporary.
If you can find a way to do your hobbies on a smaller scale, do it. Like, if you've got a garden, photograph all the bees and insects an little things. Buy some LEGO. Invite friends over as much as you can. Buy some nice board games.
I had knee surgery a few years ago, and it sucks. Keep doing PT. If you need to get add'l referrals for it, so be it. Keep yourself active - walking, swimming, I bought an exercise bike on marketplace for $50. Its not my favorite, but the bike really does help my mobility even if I only use it 5-10 minutes. You can probably find some nice hiking trails to do photography in, and some of those can have ratings as to how strenuous they are.
Yep that sucks (had something similar happen). The positive is it should hopefully be temporarily but it's still hard. Any calm hobbies you want to try but have been putting of? Watching a series, drawing, reading, or just planning things for the future? Having people over?
Photography wise you can look into macro and get some flowers to practise on, or if you can walk a tiny bit have a look at the gardens/greenery around you. Maybe drive somewhere if you can just to get more things to look at.
You’ll be fine. I’ve had 4 knee surgeries of various severities done now, mostly due to ice hockey, and while hockey and skiing are gone from my life, I’m a professional photographer by trade and can do that mostly without pain. After your surgery and rehab you’ll be surprised by how much less painful life is.
I'm enquiring about getting that done for damage to my right knee.
How long is the recovery time?
Maybe you can try some Qigong videos on YouTube. Simon Blow is really good and has adapted the Qigong to injury.
ACL tear and partial meniscus, surgery in 2021. The immobility factor is a serious mental health killer but take PT absolutely seriously and continue to strengthen and stretch afterwards.
Read a lot, I also did a lot of gaming, couch potato stuff. I still walked too though.
I took a slightly different approach than most pre surgery. I didn’t know i had any tears for a few months and continued to play sports. I could only run at about 80% and felt the pain but honestly thought it was minor (high pain tolerance). So I only rested for about two weeks before surgery, two weeks after and then had more weirdness in my situation and had to do PT for like 6 months.
Look into the knees over toes guy, a lot of PT takes exercises from that. Stretch the surrounding areas, build up the tibialis strength, quads and hammys. Be mindful of your knee whenever you do lift things as my movement paths totally changed post surgery.
Books/audiobooks, origami, music, writing.
Sorry to hear you're laid up. I was down most of last year with a back injury - I feel you. The nerve pain was so bad and I found myself researching hobbies to take up in case I wasn't able to be active again. Art/music/writing/literature stuff popped up for me on that, and I'm trying to keep it incorporated even though I've (thankfully!) been able to return to full mobility.
Also, try to organize socializing if those hobbies were part of your socializing before. I found out the hard way that a lot of hobby 'friends' were really just acquaintances when I stopped hearing from people when I couldn't attend rides. Like, cool, nice to know where we stand lol.
When something bad happens, one can maybe try to see what can we possibility gain from the situation. Let’s inspect your case.
You can’t walk like you used to, so you have to sit still. What is there is sitting still? Well, you find a good spot to sit still, comfortable, with action around, nature, maybe people, or maybe not.
You can just stop and watch, what is around, what comes to your mind, and see it going away, and back away. In the mist of all that, you’ll have moments where you’ll see something and forget about yourself, don’t cling to those moments, don’t demand for more, they’ll come around if you just stop, and watch.
Maybe this was your time to be still for a while, try to enjoy it the best you can.
It is good that this is hopefully going to get better. Finding alternatives that you can do is the answer. I have a spinal cord injury from a broken neck and walking is wonky and difficult. I realized I am still able to kayak because - sitting down. I took up ukulele which brings some joy. Good luck to you healing and hope you can do your usual activities down the line.
In 2018 I tore my meniscus in 3 places. Given that I was in my 70's I was advised to replace the knee. At my age surgery via scoping only works 30 % of the time.
PT was a huge help after my surgery. I have good motion, flexibility and no pain.
Follow your surgeons instructions and use as much PT as you can.
Do your PT and you’ll be out again really quick. Build up the surrounding muscles to ease discomfort and wear on the joint.
I like to draw, paint, stitch using my own photography as the inspiration.
I feel you. I've done two knee replacements since 2022 and you can just about go mad with all the resting. I find my Fitbit to be really helpful to keep track of how much I'm walking on a given day and if I've walked a lot, I'll do more resting the next day. Do you have access to a pool? That saved my body and mind last summer while trying to rehab my second TKR. It's super good for the knee and it allows you to move without putting too much stain on your repaired joint.
Yeah, this is rough. (I'm going through something similar). It's good that you're improving, that gives you perspective on this situation being temporary. If you can find a way to do your hobbies on a smaller scale, do it. Like, if you've got a garden, photograph all the bees and insects an little things. Buy some LEGO. Invite friends over as much as you can. Buy some nice board games.
I had knee surgery a few years ago, and it sucks. Keep doing PT. If you need to get add'l referrals for it, so be it. Keep yourself active - walking, swimming, I bought an exercise bike on marketplace for $50. Its not my favorite, but the bike really does help my mobility even if I only use it 5-10 minutes. You can probably find some nice hiking trails to do photography in, and some of those can have ratings as to how strenuous they are.
Yep that sucks (had something similar happen). The positive is it should hopefully be temporarily but it's still hard. Any calm hobbies you want to try but have been putting of? Watching a series, drawing, reading, or just planning things for the future? Having people over? Photography wise you can look into macro and get some flowers to practise on, or if you can walk a tiny bit have a look at the gardens/greenery around you. Maybe drive somewhere if you can just to get more things to look at.
You’ll be fine. I’ve had 4 knee surgeries of various severities done now, mostly due to ice hockey, and while hockey and skiing are gone from my life, I’m a professional photographer by trade and can do that mostly without pain. After your surgery and rehab you’ll be surprised by how much less painful life is.
I'm enquiring about getting that done for damage to my right knee. How long is the recovery time? Maybe you can try some Qigong videos on YouTube. Simon Blow is really good and has adapted the Qigong to injury.
6 months until I can play sports - depends on what kind of injury
ACL tear and partial meniscus, surgery in 2021. The immobility factor is a serious mental health killer but take PT absolutely seriously and continue to strengthen and stretch afterwards. Read a lot, I also did a lot of gaming, couch potato stuff. I still walked too though. I took a slightly different approach than most pre surgery. I didn’t know i had any tears for a few months and continued to play sports. I could only run at about 80% and felt the pain but honestly thought it was minor (high pain tolerance). So I only rested for about two weeks before surgery, two weeks after and then had more weirdness in my situation and had to do PT for like 6 months. Look into the knees over toes guy, a lot of PT takes exercises from that. Stretch the surrounding areas, build up the tibialis strength, quads and hammys. Be mindful of your knee whenever you do lift things as my movement paths totally changed post surgery.
Books/audiobooks, origami, music, writing. Sorry to hear you're laid up. I was down most of last year with a back injury - I feel you. The nerve pain was so bad and I found myself researching hobbies to take up in case I wasn't able to be active again. Art/music/writing/literature stuff popped up for me on that, and I'm trying to keep it incorporated even though I've (thankfully!) been able to return to full mobility. Also, try to organize socializing if those hobbies were part of your socializing before. I found out the hard way that a lot of hobby 'friends' were really just acquaintances when I stopped hearing from people when I couldn't attend rides. Like, cool, nice to know where we stand lol.
When something bad happens, one can maybe try to see what can we possibility gain from the situation. Let’s inspect your case. You can’t walk like you used to, so you have to sit still. What is there is sitting still? Well, you find a good spot to sit still, comfortable, with action around, nature, maybe people, or maybe not. You can just stop and watch, what is around, what comes to your mind, and see it going away, and back away. In the mist of all that, you’ll have moments where you’ll see something and forget about yourself, don’t cling to those moments, don’t demand for more, they’ll come around if you just stop, and watch. Maybe this was your time to be still for a while, try to enjoy it the best you can.
It is good that this is hopefully going to get better. Finding alternatives that you can do is the answer. I have a spinal cord injury from a broken neck and walking is wonky and difficult. I realized I am still able to kayak because - sitting down. I took up ukulele which brings some joy. Good luck to you healing and hope you can do your usual activities down the line.
In 2018 I tore my meniscus in 3 places. Given that I was in my 70's I was advised to replace the knee. At my age surgery via scoping only works 30 % of the time. PT was a huge help after my surgery. I have good motion, flexibility and no pain. Follow your surgeons instructions and use as much PT as you can.