I am rated at 30% in one knee for “patella-femoral syndrome with degenerative joint disease.”
It says nothing about flexion and instability (two primary issues for me), or extension, an issue, but not as severe.
Is there anyway my knee is at 30% without those being included? It seems like that’s pretty unlikely. That said, it also seems like with the limitations I have with ROM and instability it would be higher than 30%. I always thought it specified if there was a rating for those particular movements, and I don’t see them anywhere.
Thanks for any input!
I am 10 days post op patellar autograft and lateral meniscus repair. I managed to get about 70 degrees flexion in pt, but I really had to push it to get there. I basically start out with very minimal flexion, like a few degrees tops, before I hit pressure. I spent about two hours yesterday pushing tiny bits at a time, and think I got close to 70 again. I sit in a chair, and pull my leg in to the pressure as far as I can. Then I pull my toes up and hold, I guess stretching my patellar tendon.
If I stand on my crutches and let my knee bend with my toes lightly touching the ground, I can get maybe 40 degrees with no resistance.
I'm sure swelling is slowing down the flexion, and it will get easier when it goes down. I have only had 2 PT visits so far, so I'm trying to keep up with the flexion at home. I am also struggling with getting my quad to fire. I am having no success with heel slides.
Will it start to come more naturally soon, or will I have to work this hard every day to get the flexion I need? Any tips from anyone else who struggled but got there?
Thanks
Anybody experience this? It feels like its limiting me from reaching my ultimate end ranges of hyper extension, and preventing me from sitting my butt to my heel. When i try to flex butt to heel, i feel a lot of pressure in my knee, vs on the other leg, i just feel a good quad stretch.
Hi y'all,
I just started doing double kettlebell work for the first time using this program. I have a question about my wrists on the swings and cleans.
When I get back into the hinge in the 'hike' position, I've noticed the momentum of the kettlebell going back causes my wrists to bend a lot into flexion. I know that generally, wrist and hand straight with forearm is what you want, and I feel I lose some control and power of the bell this way.
Its only at the bottom of the swing I notice this, I think my top 'plank' in the swing and rack positions are pretty solid and have good forearm alignment. Any advice on how to fix this or what I could be doing wrong is appreciated.
Hey everyone! I have a question I hope you all can help with. I am resubmitting a claim after having made one about 8 years ago. I was rated 0% in both hips for flexion and 10% for impairment of thigh in both hips with the range of motion test. My hips have gotten worse over time and I want to refile. I have the DBQs and will go to my local doctor to do the range of motion tests. Will he need to perform all the ROM tests, or just the flexion one and thigh one? Also do i just ask for an increase on those four even if he does all the tests?
I’ve got a question about the flexion in your trail wrist. Is the flexion the result of me actively flexing my wrist back or is it caused by having very relaxed wrists and the lag at the top of my swing?
I'm 6 weeks post-op and have 115 unassisted / 122 assisted flexion. The healthy leg has 140. Just want to have a general idea of what's the typical time to full flexion, to see if I should be worried.
Hi all! Flexibility newbie here. I've been (very) slowly working towards a pike and I think I've hit a wall where I can't get my stomach any further to my thighs. My lower back doesn't seem to want to bend any further and I'm not sure if this is genetic or if I should be trying something new in my hamstring stretch routine.
Here's a photo of my current progress: https://imgur.com/a/w1kRyyy
I'd love to get to this one day:
https://preview.redd.it/jgf8v45jqi781.png?width=720&format=png&auto=webp&s=3a1130cc7e1dc09fae83ca06fa87278dba8d1d50
My hamstring stretching routine is to mainly do Bodyweight Warrior's various follow-along youtube videos. Any suggestions as to what I can try to progress my pike?
Hi
So I watched videos from Garage Strength on YT and it seems they all do knee flexion in their second pull both in snatch and clean. It doesn't seem like weightlifters in europe do this. Am I wrong? Do you do this? Link below excercise 7.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0GIumbHwfh8&t=609s
4 months ago I had a meniscus repair done. I was nwb for 6 weeks. My doctor never gave me any protocol of what to do at home so I was staying home in my straight brace doing nothing. At my first physical therapy appointment (2 weeks later) I had 0 flexion. Literally 0. If you touched under my knee I would jolt in pain. My therapist would put something under my knee and bend it. We both would hear the scar tissue crack. I would literally be screaming in pain at PT. I heard people in the room saying i feel so bad for whoever’s in there. When I seen my surgeon at the 3 week mark he said this is the worst he ever seen. He said I screwed myself over. It’s all my fault. I said it’s scar tissue to him because of your Reddit stories. His reply was it’s not scar tissue. If it’s not scar tissue what is it I asked and he said idk. I thought my knee would never bend and I was screwed for life. I fell into depression but my therapist helped me stay afloat. Fast forward around me 3 months of torture I got to 60 degrees of flexion alone and 70 with assistance and it wouldn’t budge no more. I went to a new surgeon and he said he wants to do a lysis of adhesion and scar tissue removal surgery. I woke up out of the surgery and my knee was bending to 90 I couldn’t believe it. My surgeons said that I have really really tight hips and quads and that he was able to get to 120 degrees under the manipulation. I’m one week post op and I’m still fighting. It’s been a roller coaster for me but I thought I’d share my story because who knows maybe someone out there is going through what I went through. I pray not but if you are I hope this helps. I’ll also make a separate post for my recovery with the LOA and MUA.
I worked out at OTF every day last week and did my fair share of inclines on the tread and types of sit-ups and v-ups on the floor. My chiropractor has said in the past that I should avoid spinal flexion exercises such as sit-ups, plus I'm really bad at doing them without my legs flying in the air which I think is causing worse problems.
That said I'm suffering from really bad lower back pain which flairs up for me from time to time. I was wondering if I can tell my coaches I'd like to modify any sit-up type exercises, or if I can simply sub them out for anything else I'd rather do like extensions/planks etc? I sometimes see people in our classes doing their own moves separate from the routine but not sure if I need to discuss with coach first?
Secondly, I sometimes wear a lower back belt I got from Walgreens and it helps, but I've never worn it during exercise. I feel like it would be a bit rigid and gross from sweating. Are there any lower back support belts designed for exercise use? I see some specific to weight training, are those ok to use? I may not need every day but for days where I'm feeling a little rough it would be nice to have that extra support – whatever helps keep me going to OTF!
**TL;DR: Let’s assume my back extensors and hip flexors are pretty strong. Am I right in assuming hamstring and glute stretching will help me to break horizontal in the ‘Good Morning’?
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Basically, I want to go beyond horizontal in the good morning whilst keeping the back flat/spine neutral / I need to be able to keep a straight back during large hip flexion.
At the moment, if I sit down on the floor with my legs straight infront of me, I can only maintain a neutral spine when the angle of my hips are beyond 90 degrees. So like, at an obtuse angle. And I can’t sit up with my back straight and perpendicular to the floor (at a 90 degree angle).
I want to be able to maintain a neutral spine as my hip flexion increases/hip angle decreases and becomes more acute.
What muscles are involved? I feel like it’s mainly hamstrings/glutes. For example, during the good morning I can get pretty close to horizontal, but there is a stretch in the hamstrings and glutes.
I don’t feel like the hip flexors themselves are tight, and it’s not like I have to strain them in order to get more and more horizontal. When standing, I can bring one knee at a time up pretty high (say 80/75 degrees).
Folks, I have an doubt wrt to flexion, when I sit in chair and if I try to bend, I am getting close to 70/80 degrees, but when I am trying to do heel slides, it's not even 40 degrees.
Is heel slides considered to be gold standard when it comes to flexion? I am 2 weeks post op. Kindly let me know guys.
Does thoracic flexion put lats in a more advantageous position for them to do their job?
Please drop any recommendations you may have for automatic flexion distraction tables, I’m looking to invest in a powered one for my practice as the manual Thuli attachment is a lot of work.
Also, any advice for table height, my current table is 20” and that’s about right because I am not tall.
My one foot has very poor toe flextion at the first joint/metatarsal head of the small toes
Towel curls aren't really tiring them out
Calf raises on the stair on just my toes? Something better?
