Why a Smart Plug is key to your ACL Recovery + 7 other helpful Gadgets | 1 Month after Surgery
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2019
- Its 4 weeks since surgery and I am walking! I go over the equipment that has helped me to make a smooth recovery. Day-1 Video: • ACL Surgery - Day 1 - ...
These are the tools that helped me keep my knee elevated, cool, and compressed so that I could have a speedy ACL recovery.
I programmed my smart plug to turn the ice machine on for 15 minutes every hour, throughout the night.
ACL Recovery Tools:
* Smart Plug:amzn.to/2L6zqUb
* Knee Compression Sleeve: amzn.to/2XYFBii
* Leg Elevation Pillow: amzn.to/34l9XNZ
* Flexicold Ice Pack: amzn.to/325qjZC
* Tens Machine: amzn.to/2L1XffW
* Zero Gravity Chair: amzn.to/2pISoJ9
* Wireless KeyBoard: amzn.to/2JUaJd5
* Wireless Mouse: amzn.to/2JOYUVy
* Ossur Cold-Therapy Ice Machine: amzn.to/2qbNBQj
Having surgery Wednesday. Got myself a leg pillow, not his cause too expensive and 3 ice pack wraps so I can cycle them and also got a crutch bag to help carry things while I walk on my crutches. Also getting a thermometer to monitor my temperature and a mini fridge for the ice packs
Nice how goes the ice pack setup? Do you regret not buying the ice machine? Do you have help or doing it on your own?
@@Famvestor turns out the hospital gave me a ultra cheap version of this to take home but they only put it on front so using ice pack for back of the knee
bro i have don ACL reconstruction plus miniscal repair 10 days post op how many days tightness to bend go away?
So I’m one week post surgery how’d you shower because I’ve been nervous to even attempt
Very helpful 👍 thanks for sharing. I just had a knee surgery 15 days ago. My knee is still swollen 😭 and am in pain day and night, haven't slept for 9 straight days. I asked my surgery to give me a stronger pain killer today, hopefully i get relief from the pain and will be able to sleep in the night without pain.
Sorry to hear that. Hope things have gottten better. Did they ever aspirate your knee?
@@Famvestor Yes, the new Surgeon i went to did Akupunktur on me last week, but unfortunately no fluid came out, it's either the effusion or scar tissue has hardened up, so it was unsuccessful. Akupunktur is a very painful procedure without anesthesia.
She requested i get another MRT Scan done which is this coming week to see if it's effusion that has hardened up or scar tissue making it difficult for me to bend my knee.
The Problem is that 70 degrees knee bend after a month of knee surgery is really bad. And my knee joint is still slightly swollen making it difficult to get a better knee bend.
According to her if the MRT Scan result shows that it's effusion that has hardened up, i might have to get another Arthroscopy surgery done on my knee to Rinse out the trapped effusion that has hardened up in my knee.
That scared the hell out of me, a second Anthroskopy surgery on same knee ( i guess i would not have a knee after the second surgery ). Am praying it wouldn't come to that, hoping there would be another way out to get the fluid out.
I have heard about Mobilisation Under Anesthesia (MUA) to help the knee bend. But i don't know if they practice that treatment here in Germany.
However I have to get the MRT Scan done first this coming Friday to know the outcome and which treatment recommendation the MRT Scan ( or the Surgeon ) will suggest.
May I ask, have you been able to get a full knee extension bend since your knee surgery?
How long did it take before the swollen around your knee joint completely went away?
I discovered after doing stretches, my knee joint will get more swollen. Am using cool pack.
@@Famvestor i will try and keep updating on this thread hoping it would or might help someone else going through my exact situation. I will be getting another Arthroscopy surgery done on my "same" right knee a second time to clean out the effusion and hematoma debris.
In one of my comment i left on your videos, i stated that my knee range of motion was 70 degrees bend, but it has since gone up to 90 degrees knee bend.
As i mentioned in my previous comment, the surgeon who operated on me didn't do a good check up on me after knee surgery. I was complaining of extreme Pain and swolleness, but he ignored my complains and didn't even check my knee and said it was normal.
Fast forward, a new surgeon i finally went to performed an Aspiration on my knee more than a week ago, but the hematoma and joint effusion has already hardened up.
She later sent me to get an MRT Scan, result came out that i have a massive effusion on my knee as well as old hematoma after the surgery making it difficult to bend my knee over and also the reason why my knee is still swollen and painful.
Now that the effusion and hematoma has hardened up, according to the new Surgeon and another one i just visited yesterday at our University Training Hospital in Nürnberg, unfortunately a second Arthroscopy surgery would have to be done on my knee to clean out the effusion and hematoma debris.
My next Surgeon appointment is in March 2023. At this point, I have to be strong and overcome my fear. I have searched and searched for videos of those whose "same knee" has been Arthroscoped a second time ( just so i know what to expect ), but i couldn't find any on UA-cam.
@@doroth215hi, how's your knee now? Any update since the second arthroscopy? I'm currently going through the same situation 5 months post-op. I cannot achieve full extension since the day I had surgery until this day. And knee bending stopped at 90 degrees. I still go to physiotherapy everyday and they forcefully bend my knee with excruciating pain, although no progress is made.
This is a great video, thank you so much! I'm 10 days post-op and I hate the ACL braces! Did you not wear the braces while moving around with crutches?
Yea after the first week I stopped wearing the brace... my PT didn’t recommend it, but it was just so clunky and I didn’t put weight on it. He was always worried about me falling and hurting it.
@@Famvestor I started doing that now lol. However, did you not wear them while sleeping at night?
@@ZunayedSiddiqui yea after abotu a week also, I stopped wearing it at night. I did keep my leg elevated though, and the ice machine going a lot.
@@ZunayedSiddiqui Not sure if you heard, but I just tore my other ACL, I am 8days post-op on the left leg, did you also sleep through the night without Brace, how did it go? How has your jouney been?
I literally just got home from buying the same machine ossur cold rush from Kijiji for 100$ ! I was so skeptical and about to fork out 300$ for the power play.. getting the same hamstring graft in two weeks today ! Wish me luck , I kind of want to cancel 😢
I do physical work , will I be back 2 months ? 3 months ? 4 is the max I can take !
After 4 months I think you should be fine to tackle most anything. Even 2 months as long as you are not lifting anything too heavy.
Hi Bro,
I saw you your ACL rehab videos i want to know you undergo through which method of surgery. Is it internal brace or bio HA Screw
I’m not sure but I got a hamstring graft. I feel like it might have been a screw, but not sure.
@@Famvestor is your both hamstring graft had been taken or only one tendon. How much time it took for the complete recovery???
How much do you think the cooling helped with the pain, i.e. reducing the need for pain killers?
My doc told me that cooling isn't that useful and I should keep it minimal. I did find quite a few studies that report reduced pain with cooling (and compression) after ACL and meniscus surgeries. I think you said in one of your videos, that you took very little medication, which probably thanks to the cooling, is that correct?
Yea absolutely, used the ice for pain management. All I took was Tylenol after the surgery.
Sir I am 14 weeks after my acl surgery but my knee feels a bit unstable and there is a slight cutting sound from the back side and normal pain of the knee plz tell me sir when will this problem go away my when is this normal?
Not sure what a cutting sound is. But clicking is normal. Have you been doing exercises and going to PT?
Are we supposed to place ice pack even after 1 month of surgery
I did after intense exercise and being all day on my feet.
What was the name of that electromagnetic machine?
The TENS Machine?
@@Famvestor that’s the one
Hi .I..I am at week 5.
It still hurts .is that normal?
Yes to have some pain I think is normal. It takes a while for all the little pains to go away.
Hey! I have an ACL surgery in December and I’m super concerned about the levels of pain. I know in the first day or two you said you felt relatively no pain, did that ever change?
No never needed the narcotics. Honestly the ice machine really helped with the pain management.
@@Famvestor I watched your videos and immediately thought about getting one, so they never said anything negative against removing the leg brace?
@@patricklong7423 well they definetly don’t recommend it. But I fell the barce keeps my knee is weird positions and causes more swelling.
@@Famvestor thank you so much!
4 weeks and I’m still not allowed to do weight bearing :( everyone on UA-cam seems to be in no pain :(
Watch my newer videos. Did you have meniscus repair, if so no weight bearing for 4-6 weeks. I finally got to one crutch at week 4.
You're supposed to ice for twenty min at a time
Yes. I was just getting very cold for that long amount of time.
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