Condition · Knee

Post-surgical pain

Healing doesn't stop when the pain does. Surgery fixes the structure; it doesn't restore the movement, and the body's own protective strategy — hold still, guard the joint, move around it — is exactly what leaves the stiffness, the weakness and the scar restriction behind. The muscles around the joint don't just get weak, they get switched off, and they stay off until something asks them back. That asking is the work.