{"id":3008,"date":"2011-12-16T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2025-09-28T22:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:05:07","slug":"update-on-tims-knee-all-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3008","title":{"rendered":"Update on Tim&#8217;s knee &#8211; all good news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was ten weeks post-op for Tim, and we saw the surgeon Dr. Weinstein. He examed Tim, saw what the physiotherapist had to say, and was quite pleased. He&#0160;told Tim&#0160;&quot;you&#39;re 95% there&quot;. He still has some <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">relative<\/span>&#0160;leg weakness compared to the left leg, especially the gluteal (technical way of saying his butt).<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Weinstein said he can start doing some <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Squat_(exercise)\" target=\"_self\">squats<\/a>, as long as he doesn&#39;t twist his knee out, doesn&#39;t do deep squats (beyond parallel, which Tim never does anyway)&#0160;and doesn&#39;t use heavy weights. When I told him that Tim&#39;s idea of a heavy squat was 300 pounds, he smiled at Tim and told him &quot;You know, you&#39;re not normal.&quot; (Tim loved that comment!!)<\/p>\n<p>We&#39;ll see&#0160;Weinstein again in four weeks, when he expects to give Tim the all-clear for full activity. This is at the optimistic end of the original timetable. Great!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was ten weeks post-op for Tim, and we saw the surgeon Dr. Weinstein. He examed Tim, saw what the physiotherapist had to say, and was quite pleased. He&#0160;told Tim&#0160;&quot;you&#39;re 95% there&quot;. He still has some relative&#0160;leg weakness compared to the left leg, especially the gluteal (technical way of saying his butt). Dr. Weinstein said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8657,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions\/8657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}