For the record, I ice and elevate all the time, but it doesn't seem excessively swollen just painful. I'm not so worried that I am only 70 degrees at 3 weeks, but it just seems like my knee is saying "don't touch me". I am 4 weeks out, and really can't even do 5-10 simple, unassisted, non-painful bend exercises, without having to endure a 36 hour painful Oxycodone recovery. I have this recent first knee experience, which is why I am perplexed. Walking did kill me, so I took their great advice and it all worked out fine quite happy with 128 degrees and able to walk a km. PT did say to avoid much walking before 6 weeks. It hurt, swelled a lot, but I successfully ignored much of what PT had to say. I did use a band to gently, manually bend my knee. I was about 87 degrees at week 2, 105 at week 6, and 125 at week 10. I swelled easily most strengthening exercises killed me, so I concentrated on ROM and did what I could.
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