As you are sitting there healing from your knee replacement, think about this…
What if I told you that everything was going to work out and you will be at 100% in a future that you are so close to?
It is.
It’s not a lie; I am not kidding.
Now that path may not be what you thought it would. Maybe you needed an MUA, maybe you got an infection or maybe you required another revision because the first didn’t take.
I was talking to a client today, and she asked how long it took me to get to 120 degrees after my knee replacement. She’s sitting at 115 right now, feeling like she hit a wall, and I could hear that mix of frustration and fear in her voice.
It reminded me exactly what this part of recovery feels like.
So, I told her the same thing I want you to hear:
You’re not stuck.
You’re in a phase. I call it the learning phase.
Have you ever caught yourself saying, “I’ll never get better,” or “I’m always in pain”?
Yeah, I used to say that too—without realizing how much weight those words carried.
Here’s the truth: your words aren’t just sounds. They’re signals. And they’re either signaling healing or frustration. When you’re recovering from something as big as a knee replacement, every bit of your energy matters. What you say to yourself—out loud or in your head—sets the tone for how your body responds.
So today, I want to help you swap those “always” and “never” statements for words that actually move your healing forward.
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What if your biggest setback isn’t your knee — it’s your thoughts about your recovery?
That realization changed everything for me.
I remember the day it hit me. I was about six weeks out from my second knee replacement and realized I still wasn’t consistently hitting zero on my extension. Some days I’d get to 3 degrees, maybe 5 — but never zero. And that tiny number became a massive mental storm.
My calf hurt constantly. My foot and ankle were cranky. But the calf pain? It was brutal.
And I remember thinking something must be wrong. Something dire.
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So you think you should be further along… maybe you’re not even six weeks out, or you’ve just hit that two-month mark, and you’re wondering why you still don’t feel “normal.”
Let me tell you something: you are not back to normal—or anywhere close to it—in six weeks.
And I say that as someone who’s been through not one, but two knee replacements and with all the love I can muster. When my surgeon told me, “I’ll see you in a year,” I swear it felt like the floor had been pulled out from under me. A year? I was thinking maybe three months tops.
But that’s the thing about recovery—it humbles you. It teaches you patience in ways you didn’t realize you were signing up for.
