| Can't point you at any websites etc, but it took me about 4 months before I could do a nervous little dive again, and then another month after that until I was really happy and painfree when finning.
I started physio the first week after the op and was doing the exercises several times a day, every day, and I still have to stretch every day. Nearly 7 months on and I do not have full strength in the leg - the muscles waste so very quickly but take forever and a day to come back. I still have pain on occasion, and my proprieception is not perfect by any means.
All I can say is take it easy, but do all the lifts and stretches you are told to, as and when you can. The programme you may get set seems really, really, slow between 3 and 6 months and it gets frustrating, but once you can get into the gym and work on a bit more equipment each time at least there is some change to the monotony of it all!
On the plus side, I don't know about you, but even though I couldn't do anything with it, the op made me far more stable from the first time I stood, a few hours after the op! Don't really regret it for a second. |