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[QUOTE="JJmxr, post: 703319, member: 16723"] Our Doc was most concerned about the straightning of the leg from the very beginning. He says that it is the hardest part of full recovery. He has us working on it very hard at home and at therapy. He said that normally if you don't get full extention by 6 weeks then you probley never will. We are now 4 weeks post-op and he still makes him wear the full leg brace in the locked straight position when he sleeps. He thinks that this is a key step in getting full extention. Yesterday at therapy he was only one degree away. At home they have him lay on his stomach with his leg hanging off the bed below the knee with a 2.5lb weight on his ankle for ten minutes at a time. It is slightly painful at times but it is working well. So at four weeks post-op he has been without crutches for almost a week now. He walks around the house without a brace, but must wear one when he leaves the front door. He is working hard on the heel to toe thing to try and get to a normal walk. The only pain now is post PT. He gets his custom brace (an EBI) in about a week. He can pedal stationary bike fairly easily and can bend to 110 degrees on his own. The Doc is keeping him away from assisted therapy of bending the knee for a while to protect the graft. Again the major focus of his PT is extention, he says the flextion will come without worry. Overall he is doing very well, and we expect to get full extention in a week or so. I must say though that the whole PT thing has strained our relationship. Sometimes I have to push him more than he likes, and we argue quite a bit. He hates that straight leg brace he has to wear to sleep and I pretty much have to force him to wear it every night. Being 15 he likes to put his own spin on the doctors words, and I always find myself having to set him straight. I have the next two weeks off so if he thinks I have been pushing him now just wait. I think we are going to wait until the 5 month mark to ride again, and probley won't consider racing or intense practice until next September. [/QUOTE]
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