09/26/2025
Bet you didn’t see that coming! (That’s what she said…)
In the early phase of post-surgical legs, the surgical area can only have so much done to it to promote healing, blood flow, tissue remodeling, swelling reduction, pain reduction, etc.
However, if you treat the body systemically, affect the entire internal environment, and optimize it humorally (not “lol” humor), you can achieve substantially better/faster outcomes on those acute post-surgical issues.
One of the best ways to do that?
TRAIN THE REST OF THE BODY!!!
Now, you should still not choose any exercises that can compromise the surgical area, but generally training the upper body in a relatively heavy but slow, controlled manner is manageable.
So, yes, all those post-op knees I saw post New Year’s Eve and Presidents’ Day weekend skiing rendezvouses were debriefed on how to use these four simple machines within a session or two of starting PT.
3x10, 3x15, 1x20+, 2x20, 5x10, 4x8… I. DON’T. CARE; just work hard and only leave a couple reps in the tank.
It can be that simple folks 🙂.
Sinceriously,
Kyle
