New Year! New Hip!

Happy New Year everyone! We hope you all had a wonderful holiday. We were very fortunate to be able to spend time with family.

 

I know I haven't been blogging lately but there hasn't been much change with Connor. He has been pretty consistant with his ROM (range of motion)and his progress since the last blog. His hip continues to reach the maximum ROM with the Ex Fix on which is 75 degrees. His knee tends to flucuate anywhere from 40-48 degrees lately. Although, it seems that his knee has regressed a bit, Dr. Standard does not seem to be concerned about it. His words were, "Our focus is the hip, the knee will come later once the Ex Fix comes off". If the Doc is fine with it, so are we! 

 

Since surgery, Connor was doing a type of muscle stimulation during his PT sessions called E-Stym. This is an electro-magnetic stimulation on the thigh/knee muscle.  Little sticky pads would be placed on his thigh muscle with electro-magnets in them which would "zap" the muscle to wake it up. Since his muscle is responding better to motion, he has graduated to another type of stimulation called A-Stym. This procedure is a deep tissue release procedure. This entails massaging cocoa butter on the thigh, followed by some deep tissue tools pressing down on his muscle to "release" it. Now, this may sound nice and relaxing but it is the opposite. This procedure is rarely complete without tears (and for me too!). It's very difficult to watch as well.  He continues to AMAZE us with his strength, perserverance, and positive attitude. We are so thankful and extremely blessed to have found this wonderful team of Dr.'s, surgical team, and therapist. We have no doubt Connor is getting the best care!

 

Now the holidays are over, we feel like the countdown is ON!!! Our removal date still stands for Feb 14th!