Since I'm checking out of here tomorrow, we needed to go through everything to make sure I can walk far enough, do the steps, and take measurements. Flew through the first two "tests" with no problem. Then we warmed up the knees with a series of exercises and then measured the range of movement. It's taken me all day to write this post because I'm not sure what I think about the outcome. They measured both knees for active and passive straightening and bending. Active is me doing the action, and passive is the therapist pushing my poor fatigued body parts into the crazy pretzel shapes (ok, this might be a slight drug-induced exaggeration):
Active Straightening: Right -7, Left -6
Passive Straightening: Right -5, Left -4
Active Bending: Right 64, Left 45
Passive Bending: Right 72, Left 54
All I know is that when the therapist bent my left knee in as far as she could I let out either a loud moan or a soft scream (LOL! Not sure which). Holy moly that hurt. I guess I thought the right knee measurements were about right but I was surprised that the left measurements were so bad. Big numbers, I'm looking for massive flexion here! I've worked my butt off so is it too much to expect better results?
Apparently so because what actually happened was that I was upset, I vented to a friend, and I forgot to put the towel over my head. The truth is out there now. They really were tears.
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