Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the rebuilding of my right knee by Dr. Andrew J. Feldman. The surgery involved a high tibial osteotomy, an ACL recision, and a microfracture. When I saw Dr. Feldman three months ago, he was very pleased with the result. The...
Today marks the six-month anniversary of my knee surgery. All in all, things are going very well. I had my last visit with my surgeon, Andrew Feldman, two months ago. At that time, he was very pleased with my progress, saying that I was ahead of where most patients...
It's now been ten weeks since my knee surgery, and everything is going beautifully. The x-rays pictured above were taken three weeks ago during my third post-op visit to my surgeon, Dr. Andrew Feldman. (At the left is a side view, at right a frontal view.) He was very...
It's now been five weeks since my knee surgery, and things seem to be going well. This morning I opened the brace up to 90 degrees of flexion. I can bend the knee 80 degrees without too much difficulty and will be working on those last 10 degrees this week. I have two...
I had my second post-op visit with Dr. Feldman yesterday, and the news was all good. We took another X-ray, and Dr. Feldman said it looked great: the tibia seems to be knitting together nicely, with no sign of any slippage. (Slippage? Who knew that was even possible?)...
A representative from Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield called today. Apparently, they need to be convinced that the use of the EBIce Cold Therapy Unit is not an "experimental" treatment.
Finally, a glitch, though mercifully it's bureaucratic and not medical. When we first scheduled the surgery, I'd been worried about bureaucratic problems, because the surgery was scheduled for early January, and we had switched our coverage from Oxford Health Plans to...
I had my first physical therapy session today. It lasted about an hour and featured "Russian stim," electrotherapy with an icepack, and lots of leg lifts. Electrotherapy is intended to stimulate motor nerves and is thought to be beneficial for pain relief. The exact...
I have a new knee brace. The old one (shown below at left) was put on in the operating room. It had stiff pieces of metal running along the sides and bottom, and it wasn't very comfortable. The new one is much more comfortable -- and much bigger. Manufactured by...