HEALTHY KNEES BLOG

Week 2 Post-Op

I won’t recount each day (because its all a blur of walking a little, icing a lot, and doing my PT exercises), but I’ll...

Week 1 – Post Knee Replacement Surgery

I do not want to dissuade anyone who has decided upon or is considering knee replacement surgery, but...

November 9, 2017

Knee Replacement Day

If you have ever had surgery or contemplated it, you know that so much thought and emotion goes into the...

I was invited to visit the ConforMIS knee manufacturing plant to see the process for taking a CT scan and turning it into a custom knee - with all...

Dr. Thorpe and I have known each other for 32 years starting with my 3rd surgery - the femoral osteotomy when I was 34 years old. Since then were 5...

We have all experienced different levels of pain, but how do you know when enough is enough?

Chronic pain, the pain you live with because of a...

I finally made a BIG decision....31 years after I was told I had severe osteoarthritis in my left knee.

On November 9, 2017 I will have my knee...

I'm 55.  I've had 10 knee surgeries.

It started with birth.  I was born with a condition called "discoid meniscus" that affects only 1 -...

Is PRP for you?

Here is a great question from “T Hand” that prompted me to write about Platelet Rich Plasma:

“What is the...

This morning I sat at the top of the stairs and sobbed. 

Something had shifted in my knee (suspected loose cartilage) and the pain was...