Best & Worst Sleeping Position after Total Knee Replacement

We spend a third of the day sleeping. This is a long time for your knee to be in a bad position after your total knee replacement. You want it to be in the best position for it’s healing.

Watch this week's video to know what is the best and worst sleeping position after TKR.

This video will cover the following:
✅ If you like sleeping on your back
✅ If you like sleeping on your belly
✅ If you like sleeping on your side
…and so much more!

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[restorepluspt]

Hope you enjoyed this weeks' video! What position do you prefer to sleep in? Comment down below!

[roberthoward]

Who sleeps for hours after the surgery ? I can’t.

[geraldarcuri]

No one has physical therapy beds, so a lot of this is not practical. Sleeping is just plain difficult after TKR.

[naomis.sharif]

Thank you. You are CORRECT. I APPRECIATE YOU.

[MatshedishoMoleme]

I had my surgery on 2/04/2024 thanks for this video now i now the best position to sleep, I've been struggling along

[virginiaanderson]

These are good recommendations to get the best ROM from your knee replacement. However, I have found that there has to be compromise. Lying on your back with the knee totally straight is too uncomfortable to sleep. You have to be sleep to get the rest needed for recovery

[hollycooper]

I have forced myself to sleep on my back. Between getting up every 6 hrs for medication and a few times for potty, I'm getting 8 hours total. If I get up to use the potty and feel really stiff, I'll walk around for a few minutes and get an ice pack.

[marystokes]

I am 8 weeks post op. Maybe 1 hour sleep at a time. Who sleeps 8 hours Postoperative?

[AlbertaLC]

I sleep on my side and I keep the knee replacement leg straight. If I even feel myself bending my knee. I immediately straighten it. It works for me. If it did tighten, it was very little. Then I straighten my leg and squeeze thigh, push knee down to bed. Not with had of course. I hold 5 seconds, repeat 5 times. Then I’m ready to stand, no more stiffness.

[miteypen]

I slept on my back on the couch for the first week. (Our bedroom is upstairs and I wasn’t ready to tackle the stairs yet.) I was taking a low dose of oxycodone during that time which pretty much knocked me out. Fortunately, I was able to make it upstairs by the end of that week and I slept in my own bed, on my back at first, but then I switched from side to side and tried to move my legs as much as possible. I’m eleven days post op and my flexion is 90 degrees already. Of course, I had a partial knee replacement, but I’m 72 years old, so there’s that.

[kylady]

Thank you again. My knee replacement was on April 12th 2023. I still have been sleeping with my leg on pillows no one told me any different. I will be removing them immediately. 💖

[jss]

I knew you were gonna say side Sleep was the worst because that’s how I sleep. Probably can sleep on my back but then I have an issue with sleep apnea and the CPAP. No one semi lucky thing is I tend to get up 2 to 3 times a night to go to the bathroom so I can straighten my leg and bend it and do my exercises.

[lindahughes]

Well it's 7 weeks to late for this information. All the things you said can go wrong have gone wrong for me. I even had a manipulation and my knee still won't straighten and PT bootcamp is no kidding matter. I asked my therapist how to sleep and they said whatever I tell you you are going to move while you are asleep so it doesn't matter. Now I'm crying thru every session with my knee being preesed down and bent. I don't know what to do. I'm so depressed.

[bettycoffin]

My TKR was 3 weeks ago. Walking without walker/cane now. Slept in a lift chair all this time & my sleep apnea got WORSE. I just got into my bed 2 nights ago and flat on my back, pillow under my calves/feet & apnea not an issue now. But can only sleep 4 hrs at best.But PT has been the best to get knee moving.

[linda-nqxq]

Thank you I wish I knew this before but they Never told me

[Anisa.]

Thank you for your content . I have neck, upper and lower back problems and I should be careful for my knees too. A lot of doctors here on YouTube suggest that you should put a pillow under your knees when you sleep on your back (soldier position). I have tried that and it helps a little bit but I still have pain when I wake up . I tried the side sleeping with the pillow under my knees and I could not sleep all night because my neck and my back hurt a lot . What do you suggest ? I will try today sleep on my back without the pillow and see but still I am confused about the correct way to sleep . Thank you again !

[shashiramdaursingh]

It s not easy at all to find sleep even if it is kept straight.

[slundgr]

What about using the wedge pillow? Sleeping is the big challenge after my knee replacement surgery. Sometimes I end up on my side by accident.

[sadielaurentiwhitley]

Thank you so much for this video mom
Two days post op and I thought I should sleep with leg raised.

[SamanthaRoach-wllm]

Hi, I'm 47 and 26 days after TKR, I slept on my back and occasionally with a pillow under my knee at nighttime but not during the day when I slept, I was also able to do various exercises quite early on, my issue is that I am unable to bend my leg to 90° and that is hindering my walking, what ever I try I am physically unable to bend this leg further. I must say due to communication issues I have also not had any physio at all.