Background-
This year, I turned 33 but I have had the knees well knee, of an 80 year old for almost three years now. Actually, I’ve had an injured knee for 12 years now. I fell on it when I was 18 and it never healed. It has badly injured but X-rays never really picked up a problem until I had a MRI and it showed that I had damaged cartilage and a bone sliver in the joint. My kneecap had become as brittle as fine China and despite being an active person my whole life, nothing stopped the pain from such an injury. For 12 years, I’ve been in some sort of pain, sometimes just achy other times it kept me in bed, sometimes for days. I’ve had 3 different prior surgeries for the pain, including a lateral release, which never healed correctly due to the amount of injury within the joint. So here I am at 33 and I just scheduled a knee replacement and I don’t know whether it will be a full or a partial yet. Either way, I’m getting a surgery that most people don’t get until they are in their 60’s… maybe, in there 40’s with an injury but not in there 30’s. So, at 33 I am undergoing major knee surgery. Awesome.
Information on Knee Arthroplasty (replacement)
-http://orthopedics.about.com/od/surgicalrehabprotocols/p/replacementrehab.htm
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knee_replacement
-http://www.zimmer.com/en-US/pc/article/mis-knee.jspx
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