After having a total knee replacement last March (just before shut down) in order to prevent swelling, I highly recommend that you keep your leg and knee elevated as much as you can during the first 2 or 3 weeks after surgery. And that means so your foot is OVER your head by laying down on bed or couch with your leg up on a stack of pillows. I thought having it elevated meant sitting in a lazy boy with the foot rest up. Boy was I wrong. For exercises, I would put a paper plate on the floor with my foot on the plate so I could slide my foot out and back like your exercise examples show.
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