Throughout your knee replacement recovery, you’ll likely be monitoring, obsessing over, and measuring one thing: range of motion. Chances are your doctor and physical therapist will give you range of motion milestones to hit and chances are it won’t be easy to get there. Gaining back knee flexion (bending), extension (straightening), adduction (movement towards middle of the body), abduction (movement away from middle of the body), rotations (inward and outward) must be worked towards. It not something that happens overnight.
When thinking about range of motion (ROM), that irritating saying, “no pain, no gain” comes to mind. To hit your range of motion goals after knee replacement surgery, you’re going to have to work through some pain and dedicate yourself to improvement.
