Today was a better day than I expected. I did my strength/ROM exercises in the morning before PT, and saw even more improvement during the session today. The only thing that is really prohibiting full flexion is the swelling behind my knee and a small amount of pain. I'm able to do the complete sets of each the exercises and I am getting stronger on the bike. I was able to up my cadence quite a bit and cover 1.5 miles today.
PT went very well today. She introduced some new exercises on the Reformer and gave me a new one to do at home: stand on one foot for 30 seconds. She also said that next week I'll be able to end the current exercises and start some completely new ones. I'm looking forward to starting these because they will be even more focused on rebuilding the strength around the knee. I will also start adding more minutes to the bike sessions starting tomorrow. She also clipped the ends of the sutures and hopefully the Steri-strips will start to come off soon.
Things are also progressing well with the brace. I don't wear it at all when I'm walking around the house, and now when I am out I no longer have to have it locked in full extension. I am walking pretty normally now without having to think about it too much either.
I'm still icing as much as I can to try to get rid of the swelling, especially before and after doing the exercises. I also still have a small amount of pain that seems to come and go, but overall I think it's starting to diminish.
Here's my workout for today:
Push-ups 5x20 (various hand placements)
Pull-ups 4x12, 5 negatives
i can't believe you made a pi joke there.
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