We recommend consulting a musculoskeletal physiotherapist to ensure exercises are best suited to your recovery. If you are carrying out an exercise regime without consulting a healthcare professional, you do so at your own risk. If you have any concerns whilst completing these exercises, please contact a healthcare professional.
This programme focuses on regaining or maintaining range of movement within the knee, and appropriate loading of the knee to maintain lower limb strength without aggravating symptoms. We suggest you carry this out once a day for approximately 2 – 6 weeks as pain allows. We can work into pain during these exercises but ideally, this should not exceed any more than 3 out of 10 on your self-perceived pain scale.
This is the next progression. More focus is given to progressive loading of the knee as well as proprioception (perception or awareness of the position and movement of the body) and stability exercise. As with the early programme, some pain is to be expected but ideally, we do not want this to be any more than 3 out of 10.