Hi folks,
Glad to hear of everyone's continued recovery! Frank, that's exactly what my orthopedist said, too, but he put a little more 'fear of God' in his statement... "You can hit the gym any time you like in life, but if you don't get your range of motion back in the first three months, you're never gonna get it." Yikes!
One of the things I did was when I could bend to even, say, 30 degrees, I'd lock my hinge brace into that position and try to sit with it for a few minutes, then release. After a few reps of this, my leg would naturally be able to allow an extra 5 or so degrees at a time. It's a journey, but at one point, it'll all click. The first 90 degrees felt impossible for me, but after I hit the 100 mark, it seemed like the rest came back in a week or two without me even noticing it!
Some bad news from my end. While imaging shows that my quads tendon is fully healed(!), Doc says I definitely need a second surgery. I've been intermittently experiencing a huge swelling of my knee every couple of months that reduces my mobility pretty heavily. I've been in a new round of PT, but we just did another MRI when it was swollen, and the suture anchor that they initially used in surgery has found its way all the way through my patella, so there is a tunnel leading from the top to the bottom. The joint seems to be constantly reacting negatively to the seemingly foreign body constantly being in there. Dr says we need to take it out from the bottom and fill the hole in the bone so the inflammation stops.
I'm curious about everyone's surgery -- did you have suture anchors? 2 or 3? Did anyone have an arthroscopic procedure for an acute tear? Have you had any follow up imaging that shows the anchor, its resorption?