knees are bent after frame removal surgery

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just got my fixators removed. its been about a week and my knees are really bent and curved when i wake up. i use the bike mid day and put weights on my knee to make it straight for a week already. still feeling the bent knees when i wake up. i have a slight curve and not straight leg and also developed slight ballerina foot about 1cm. while i have been practice standing up and stretching my heels. im concern about my knees. when in a month im going home back in the states i dont have much physical therapy as before. should i be worried about bent knees in the future?

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i hope so . ive develop this problem during the lengthening phase. my pt mainly focus on my heels and not really my knees. i feel if my knees were straight i can walk gingerly without pain. now i feel a bit pain when standing on my heels. its my first week off frames.

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knees are bent in the morning i have to spend time straightening it before i can start walking. started walking with a walker now 12 days after 2nd surgery. slight pain in my knees from the locking screws. dunno how people could stand this pain after 1 month...hopefully my knee pain goes away. currently wrapping it to feel better. my next goal is to stand up while sitting without support. pretty hard to do when u see your buddy next to u doing it. one of my room mate since i started lengthening have left and went home which sucks and another room mate that is fixing her bent knees just left after a few weeks. having your room mates leaving one after another kinda sucks. i just got another room mate that came in n there gonna leave before me too.

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ive straighten my leg when im in a laying position but when in a standing position im having a hard to straightening my legs. i still havent figure out why my knee are so stiff when im standing. does anyone know why?
im walking with a walker with little pain. just my knee doesnt go straight. my pt guy havent done anything for it yet. only when im laying down my legs are straight.

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Quote from: slowed & reverb on November 18, 2023, 11:07:09 PMcyborg has a website dedicated to people who think they might have a problem during leg lengthening or simoly wanna ask questions about anything regarding lengthening, try to find the website, i think he has it under one of his recent videos.

ive watched several videos of his already. mostly asking doctors questions that ive seen.
i been walking alot lately like 1200 steps a day and my tibia muscles have balloon in size. it was bigger than before my surgery. i feel like i have 2 different ways to walk. one way to walk quick with the help of the walker and another is walking slower with less use of the walker. i think the slower the walk is better.
i think the bent knee is part of the lumbar lordosis . hopefully that goes away because it reduces height.

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i have walked alot today and feel my foot burning sensation coming back. my foot has some nerve pain but nothing noticeable. today it felt like burning once before when i had my frames on. hopefully its not like this all the time.
im not sure how long my nerves will take to heal but i hear from 1-6 months. to not even healing at all. its so bad.

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my physiotherapist is not state of the art . where they have facilities. i dont think they did a great job taking care of me thats why i had to stop early at 5.5 cm . my pt focus on my ballerina feet and gave me massages during lengthening . i feel i missed out alot of real pt during lengthening .

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after one month and a week. i can walk 10 steps unassisted. its not the best of walks though. im walking more like spread legs and at a slow pace. i shouldnt walk unassisted though not after 2 months say the pt guys. the guys ive seen actually walk after 1 month unassissted but things can go wrong. will probably need a new job after because i worked at doordash and i dont think i can go up stairs like i used to. maybe a job at uber taxi. a job i dont look forward to because i heard bad stories . hopefully my area is good though not like the ghettos.

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When I wake up my right knee is a little bent but I can straighten out by stretching for 5 mins. I usually use a chair in the morning to get around. After I'm awake 15 mins I'll use crutches.
I find my ankles aren't fully touching the ground when I walk without crutches. I still feel a slight pain at the top of my ankle where it bends. Probably 1 more month I'll have better flexibility to walk without pain at the ankles.

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After reading a few forum post I have this medial knee subluxation. My knee is slightly bent inside. Not sure how I can fix that. Maybe with time it will bend back into place. Maybe wearing a knee brace will help.