lower leg pain

[osubucks]

Happy New Year!
I'm 6 weeks post op and for the last couple days I've expereience knee soreness and pain in my
shin area, anyone else experience anything like this at this point in recovery?

[hernanu]

You're going to feel a lot of different twinges, especially as you start exercising muscles that may have been unused or atrophied for a while. You're also probably walking differently, so the mechanics of movement have shifted (I know they did for me).

I had some pain on my IT band on both sides, worse on the left; I also had knee pain, which I believe was due to that. The thing that helped me the most was massage (light) on the area, on the incision and most of all - I use a foam roller to go over the IT band, loosening it and in the process it really relieved the knee pain. The roller is awesome.

[ScubaDuck]

I had a surprising amount of lower leg pain off and on after surgery.  I agree with Hernanu that it seemed to be from using muscles differently.  I think every muscle inmy operated leg acted up at some point or another.

Yesterday I went snowshoeing up Mt. Seymour outside Vancouver,BC.  The last time I did that I had major hip pain.  This time NO HIP PAIN!!!!  And I was able to dance last night to celebrate a new year without hip pain.

Best wishes.

Dan

[Luanna]

That awesome Dan. You've worked really hard to get to the place you are in your recovery. I'm 3 weeks behind you and would love to be able to snoeshoe and dance in 3 more weeks. Good goal for me.

Luanna

[hernanu]

Hey congrats on the one year, Dan! I remember that awesome video of you going up and down the stairs early, dance is a really good use of the hips.