Recovery and Rehab Update: Month 5 After 2nd Surgery
I'm 5 months out from surgery #2 and 11.5 months out from the original right knee mosaicplasty surgery. I'm still a long way from "normal", but I've started doing some "running" again. Several weeks ago, I was reintroduced to "running" on an Alter G treadmill at the place where I do my PT. I ran for 2 minutes twice (with a 3-min walk in between) at 60% of my bodyweight. Felt very strange...like I had never run before in my life. At my most recent PT visit, I did the same workout at 70% bodyweight. It went much better. I went from 14 minutes/mile pace to 12 minutes/mile. As previously mentioned, my plan was to work my way up to 20+ minutes of walking every other day and then to start adding some short running intervals to the walks. That plan has worked so far. I've done 5 walks now that included a little bit of running. I started with 4 15-second running intervals for a total of 1 minute of running and in my last walk/run I was able to do 4