Knee Machine

This is the knee machine.  The foot goes in the upright part and then you drape the rest of your leg down the middle of the gray fleecy stuff.  You use the remote control on the side to increase the angle.  It slides up and down the dark track in the middle

The dark blue blob on top is a fancy ice pack, and the blue/white thermos in the background is a container of ice and water that keeps the blue pack cold. I put the ice pack on top of my knee as it goes up and down in this machine.

I'm supposed to do 6 hrs a day, 2hrs on, 2 hrs off, but it actually hurts my back (lying on it) more than my knee.  I know this is critical to my recovery, but can't wait to be done with it..... 

I've started wiggling my good leg around in the air, crossing it over the bad leg, anything I can think of to move my back a bit, including "butt lifts."  Anything to give those back muscles something else to do.