[KathieI]

My husband (actually ex-) had 2 partial knees done about 6 months apart. He had the motion machine on him when he woke up in the hospital and it was delivered to the house when he came home. He was on it almost 24 hours a day and fell asleep with it in motion. He also has some sort of device on his feet that was an air pressure balloon type thingy that was supposed to avoid blood clots. He had that for about a week or so. The motion machine was on him for more than a month (if I remember correctly) and he had a therapist come to the house 3 x a week for quite a while and she measured each time the level of range in bending the knee. His pain was severe but the oxy and percoset took care of it.

The 2nd knee was different in that the surgeon glued the incision, he did not use staples. About 3 days after he got home, his leg swelled up twice or more its size and was red and very hot. The pain was extremely high and I rushed him to the ER where he actually went into shock. They admitted him for another week and the eventual outcome was he was allergic to the glue that was used. Who would have guessed???? So that recovery was longer and eventually both knees now are in good shape.

Its probably too late for the motion machine for you but I know it helped him a lot in keeping the leg from stiffening up.

Good luck, and I hope and pray you are 100% soon... xoxoxo