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A new machine at the Culpeper Hospital is making recovery from surgery possible for at least one local resident.
Glynda Menefee of Sperryville has been walking with a stiff knee for eight months since it was dislocated in February.
Recovery from her iiyury, which eventually required surgery, was made difficult because of the painful exercises used in traditional physical therapy.
A continuous passive motion machine, however, appears to be helping.
After Mrs. Menefee’s knee continued to dislocate after six weeks in a cast, surgery was performed in April to pull the knee into place.
Following another six weeks in a cast, Menefee could not bend her knee, and the scar tissue that accumulated in the knee made the necessary physical therapy too difficult and too painful for her to perform.
“In her situation, my wife just couldn’t do the therapy to bend her knee,” said William Menefee, the patient’s husband.
To help the patient regain mobility in her leg, Dr. Robert Rutkowski of Culpeper manipulated her knee under anesthesia, releasing the scar tissue that was preventing movement of her knee.
After the procedure, Mrs. Menefee’s knee could bend 90 degrees, but her goal was to maintain this mobility and to increase the range of motion. Dr. Rutkowski prescribed the continuous passive motion ma
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