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In Allen's Own Words
"Good afternoon, my name is Allen Reyen. I'm a 67-year-old male with a brand new right knee, full replacement I had done at the Hospital for Special Surgery on December 28th, 2016. I never anticipated what my recovery period would be but I would have guessed it to be two to three weeks, and I've been at this for about eight weeks so far. I stayed in the hospital for two days, came home with the assistance of my wife, and fortunately she was home with me full time since then. It would have been a whole different journey if I had had to go to rehab. I did the prescribed in home physical therapy for 12 out of the first 14 days when I was home followed by outpatient. I thought I was progressing fairly well because nobody was telling me to the contrary. I got to about 85 degrees flexion and four to six degrees extension in the first four weeks.
My surgeon suggested a Manipulation Under Anesthesia.
I realized it was a time sensitive thing. I went back in for the day that HSS had the flexion, or had the manipulation done. That was an event I wouldn't want to go through again. It was actually more painful in the following week than the surgery was after its first week. During that immediate four or five day period my wife began to do some research and found the X10 system on the internet and showed it to me. We looked into it, we both read the documentation. It seemed like a direction I might consider.
I asked my surgeon about it, and this was about five weeks post surgery now. I had seen him and had the flexion done one week earlier. He said as long as I don't hurt myself I can be as aggressive as I want because my progress was still not good, and in fact in weeks five and six I went from about 120 degrees at the manipulation back down to about 80 or maybe even 75 degrees. My body just did not like therapy. It certainly didn't like the CPM machine that I was sent home with which I was instructed to use three times a day for two hour periods. I did that religiously hoping for success. My body just rejected it. I stopped using it on my own after four days, realizing it was not helping and it was actually harming me. And not in a bad way but I was not making any progress and I was regressing at that point.
He gave me a 20 minute session and at the start of it I was probably at 85 degrees flexion before it would actually be painful. And after just 20 minutes, and I can't tell you how, I was at 92 degrees, and I thought that was remarkable.
I found that night when I used it for the first full 30 minute session that I enjoyed the display, I understood the basics of how to manipulate the display in the range of motion mode, and I enjoyed just playing with the parameters of what my knee could do without being at all painful. And I probably got to 95 or 96 that night, and I was really just thrilled. It was remarkable progress after six weeks post surgery. I received my machine on a Monday and exactly 10 days later I had already gone to the limits of the machine in flexion which is 130 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes at a time. And the following day at my outpatient physical therapy my therapist expressed dismay at how much progress I had made. He attends to a lot of full knee replacements and has never seen such remarkable progress. And in fairness to him and everybody else involved I said that I'm sure that all of the work that I had had done contributed to my success, but clearly the X10 machine had the most dramatic improvement and assist in my current success.
He then measured my flexion after a couple of routine things at PT, and it was 134 degrees yesterday morning which is to me just astounding. I'm thrilled with machine and I will be happy to speak to anybody that is facing this type of surgery and just let them know the benefits of it. It's absolutely non-painful, it's user friendly. Once it's set up to a threshold where you don't have pain you can manipulate the machine very easily. I set mine up in front of a television thinking that's how I would pass my time and I actually never watched the television. It was so encompassing to play with the different settings and see how many degrees further I could go in both extension and flexion each day. Extension came to me fairly easily. I'm sort of stuck at two but that seems to be my physiology. But I actually stopped using the machine two days ago because I couldn't get any more than 130 degrees out of it. I then started some of the physical strengthening and I only got a few of those sessions in because of business commitments. But anybody like to speak to me I'm a big big supporter of the system."
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