Day 5.

I woke up with with drymouth, even though by time I went to bed (5 am) all the affects seemingly wore off.

My leg is a bit stiff, no cryocuff at night. 0-90 with no effort under its own power.

There's bruising on the shin which doesn't make any sense. This is probably the largest source of pain today. I took the best pictures of the bruising during week 2. My CanonSD550 has a feature where you can 'highlight' a color:


I also did one in Photoshop:


I took the TED off and then passed out in a nap. It was a huge mistake. My knee is extremely swollen and throbbing. It's extremely painful to walk on it now. I feel like I undid 5 days of PT by not doing RICE.... however.

I finally did get around to PT and it felt great. I applied the cryo-cuff directly without the TED and I even flipped it upside down so the bulk of the thermal mass was over where it hurt the most:

and it feels ... amazing. Thankfully I didn't undo all my previous days work.

Rearranged the room (yet again) so that changing the water can happen quickly. I took the hinges off the closet and put the fold out couch 'in' it so that I could sit up against the wall when I was awake and have easy access to my cryocuff. I've been changing it out almost every 30 minutes.




After 3 hours of Cryo-Cuff treatment directly on the skin I stood up and didn't feel an immediate rush of blood to my knee.

I also now have full hyper extension under its own power ...

and around 125-135 (According to photoshop)...