Total Knee Replacement Recovery (3 months post-op)

had an acl total reconstruction probably 25 years ago. And then that led to just wear and tear to where ultimately had bone on bone on my knee. And Dr. Stones said I needed total, total knee replacement.

Had acl reconstructive surgery and then ended up needing my meniscus repaired twice in the last 10 years just from just continue wear and tear and then summer of 2021. Didn't realize it at the time, but actually completely tore my ACL again. Didn't even know that until I saw Dr. Stone. And at that time he said I needed total knee replacement and that basically I had a worn out knee, so it was time and was having swelling, pain from activity, was still able to do a lot of the things I wanted to do, but with limitations, not at the level of performance that I wanted. And then also, you know, there's consequences. If I had too much activity, then again, swelling and pain from, from the activities.

Well, with the knee replacement from all the other doctors and surgeons I talked to, it was a drastic change of life. I was not gonna be able to do the water sports that I wanted to do. I was not gonna be able to return to basketball and or running. And just a lot of limitations on life. And so I, I, I was looking for an option, hoping that there'd be something out there, some type of surgery or option that would get me back to where I left off. So I could return, not only just perform those, those activities, but do 'em at a, at a high level and compete. So that, that was my goal. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>, that's what I was searching for, and I just wasn't finding any answers. In fact it was I, I was not gonna have any surgeries at all and just continue to live with it. And I was doing exercises and PT and muscle strengthening and balance and trying everything that I could to try to, you know, get through it. But I was finding myself exercising more than I was even doing activities to try to maintain. And it was, it was getting pretty frustrating. So coming to the Stone Clinic and meeting Dr. Stone with my appointment and I flew down here and had the appointment and he said, we can get you fixed. You're a perfect candidate. Extremely encouraging. Hmm.

So I did the two weeks of rehab here, which was in incredibly helpful just to give me an idea of what to do and what to expect cause I didn't know. And just each day coming in like, okay, you're doing good. You need to keep working on this. And then just giving me the blueprint for the next couple months of what I need to do. And Dr. Stone said, I did my part, now it's time for you to, to do yours. And so I took that seriously and I've really, really worked hard at my rehab. It's been hard. It felt like it was going slow. Of course, 90 days is not a super long recovery, but it's felt like a long time. But I'm, you know, at 90 days I, I don't really feel like I have any restrictions from just basic life from walking to playing golf to work to all of that. I'm not at the point where I'm, I'm able to perform sports yet you know, basketball and water sports. But again, it's only been 90 days and I'm still working towards that. But at this point, I mean, it's feeling pretty good. Dr. Stone says I'm doing great. I've still got some swelling that I need to work on to get mitigated, but I think I'm on track.

After 10 weeks I was able to play five rounds of golf and then during that week walked almost 50 miles at the, the location that we were again with very little pain, very little swelling. And so extremely thrilled with, with my ability to do that after a pretty short period of time.

So I want to be able to wakeboard and that's one of the things that my family does. I've got boat and we, not only wakeboard, but wake surf. Wake surf is not as extreme. Wakeboarding is extreme. And you've been doing it for probably 10 or 12 years. And so wakeboarding doing, you know, acrobats from wake to wake and jumping and getting 10 feet in the air behind the boat and landing. And that's a little bit on the extreme side. That's how I tore my ACL in 2021. And so when I wanna get back to doing that. And then playing basketball, I do play in competitive tournaments in Spokane, Washington. They have a tournament every year, largest three on three in the world. I play in tournaments locally. So getting back to not just playing basketball, but also playing in tournaments and wakeboarding and doing some more high, high, high impact type of activities.

 And then I, I do other activities such as archery hunting and hunting, and so hiking hills and mountains and packing you know, weight on my back while walking on uneven train or other goals of mine. So those would be more extreme things I wanna get to. But as far as like the basics of just playing golf and walking and going up and down stairs, like after three months, 90 days, that right now is not hard. That's already done that box check. Now it's getting to, you know, the next phase of the next 90 days or the next six months to where I can return back to my my sports.