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Message: [QUOTE="gtcam, post: 2245825, member: 2844"] Hey there HS - my best to the Mrs in the recovery I had a total knee replacement as well as the major leg bone straightening last March. I was at St Francis and done by Dr Terry Reardon of Middletown Ortho. I was walking up 4 stairs that night, out of the hospital the next day, took pain killers for 3 days until I developed a rash and just took Advil. In home PT for 2 weeks, then PT daily for 6 weeks Sports (soccer and baseball) killed my knees and I had a compound fracture in same leg in 1991. I am 85% pain free - there will be residual pain but I no longer walk crooked and my leg is straight and true It's amazing what these replacements can do - while I don't run anymore, I do peddle a stationary bike 9 miles a day 5 days a week and walk the highest incline at 3.9 speed on a treadmill for 20 minutes a day. The only thing I suffer from is leg cramps at night after a day in the garden and a session at the gym All in all - the best decision Dr Reardon ever made for me!!!!!!!! Wish I could do the other but he doesn't feel it needs it (now) Again, best of luck to your wife - the best recovery is an active one - she has to do the PT exercises on her own - I doubled them up and glad I did [/QUOTE]