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3 Years Later, Knees Made for Dancing
nytimes.com — Artificial knees, while certainly an improvement over severely arthritic ones, are not like normal, healthy knees.
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- eHobayyeb, on 06/03/2008, -15/+1dugg
- DreadPirate, on 06/04/2008, -1/+2Buried
- MorphicMusic, on 06/03/2008, -15/+1dugg
- DreadPirate, on 06/04/2008, -1/+2Buried
- greenmason, on 06/03/2008, -0/+19It's great to hear that knee replacements can be so successful. I have rheumatoid arthritis which really affects my knees terribly and I'm only 21.
- Andrwmorph, on 06/03/2008, -0/+5/hug
- jbenze, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1I had a double knee and double hip replacement last year due to severe RA; I was 27 when I had them done. You won't BELIEVE how much better it feels. It's worth every minute.
- Owned1Up, on 06/03/2008, -12/+5not dugg
- dreicher, on 06/03/2008, -11/+5commented on...not dugg.
- slvrbullet87, on 06/03/2008, -1/+2 Commenting on didnt read
- SoopaflySAM, on 06/03/2008, -3/+8Megaman dance
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_bd1Tflywck- leerayIG88, on 06/03/2008, -0/+3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ysAAOQC6k&feature ...
- arkarthicked, on 06/03/2008, -3/+4pretty insightful article on artificial knees
- BoneheadFarker, on 06/03/2008, -10/+2dugg...then undugg...just because I can...
- xtremesniper, on 06/03/2008, -0/+2Noooooooooooo, but then you can't re-digg it!
- itsgotyou, on 06/03/2008, -4/+6I'd like to get my wife 2 with extra padding please.
- LogicBomB, on 06/03/2008, -1/+8Would you like a wife with those?
- itsgotyou, on 06/03/2008, -4/+2I guess I can chain the other 1 in the laundry room. Yeah sure, give me one.
- LogicBomB, on 06/03/2008, -1/+8Would you like a wife with those?
- AdamFromMyspace, on 06/03/2008, -0/+4This is great news - I'm a motorcycle stunt rider and tore a lateral meniscus in my left knee last year, and last Friday did something bad to the right one (haven't been to the doctor yet.. no health insurance.. eep) and I'm on crutches again.. glad to know that if I really did totally ***** something up there is at least a solution.
- krellor, on 06/03/2008, -0/+5I know health insurance is expensive, but as a stunt rider, I would call it essential. A business cost really. And if your a stunt rider to fun and not work, then doing that without insurance is doubly stupid. But I hope your knees get better. I tore my medial meniscus, cartilage around the patella, and synovium in my right knee that needed surgery to fix. Good luck.
- cdahlkvist, on 06/03/2008, -0/+2Well, you don't get a knee replacement for a torn meniscus. Typically they remove the damaged portion of it or they use sutures or arrows.
I've been through the surgery and arrows and sutures are a short term fix for a very big problem. For me it eventually resulted in having to have the meniscus removed completely (meaning bone on bone grinding)
My insurance finally paid for me to go to Tria (used by many professional sports teams). Since I was considered "too old" for a typical allograft (cadaver meniscus) they used my own cells to grow what is called a "living scaffold".
That meant my body had no rejection to the new meniscus.
To give you an idea of how great of a procedure this is, I started skydiving and have had no knee problems.
- xtremesniper, on 06/03/2008, -3/+2I kinda started reading the beginning, lost interest, and then dosed off. Way to keep me enticed, NY Times.
- CryRightardCry, on 06/03/2008, -4/+2Dozing off while reading is often a sign of low intelligence.
Perhaps next time you could have someone sing the article to you.
Way to show you're a moron.- xtremesniper, on 06/04/2008, -1/+4Dozing off while reading is a sign of low intelligence? Who made that rule up?
Way to show that you think you know what you're talking about. Get off your high horse and stop pretending you know the first thing about me. Troll.- DreadPirate, on 06/04/2008, -0/+2xtremesniper - Don't worry about CRC. He's a once-banned troll who gets off on insulting others with the least provocation. He's got no brains or reasoning behind his ranting, only his innate stupidity.
- Qong, on 06/04/2008, -1/+3Don't listen to this idiot. I fall asleep doing all sorts of things and I am quite intelligent.
All falling asleep means is that you are, get this, tired.
- xtremesniper, on 06/04/2008, -1/+4Dozing off while reading is a sign of low intelligence? Who made that rule up?
- DreadPirate, on 06/04/2008, -0/+3CRC - this, coming from someone who has failed reading comprehension on multiple occasions? Hypocritical much? But wait, of course you are. You're a liberal retard, after all.
- CryRightardCry, on 06/03/2008, -4/+2Dozing off while reading is often a sign of low intelligence.
- stik, on 06/03/2008, -3/+3Forget having artificial knees.... My Girl has an artificial leg... fun positions ;)
- shoover, on 06/03/2008, -5/+1I feel queasy now.
And a /rude to NYT for their big online child abuse ad before letting me see the article. That's just the thing I want on my computer screen at work.- theothemonkey, on 06/03/2008, -1/+2Perhaps you should try working while at work... novel /rude
- shoover, on 06/04/2008, -1/+1Actually, it is pretty common practice to surf Digg on lunch.
- CryRightardCry, on 06/03/2008, -3/+2Aw, did the abused children ruin your day, jackass?
***** you and your lack of concern for them.
Whaaaa, I had to dirty my beautiful mind with abused children.
Loooooooooser.
- theothemonkey, on 06/03/2008, -1/+2Perhaps you should try working while at work... novel /rude
- s4g4n, on 06/03/2008, -0/+3Ronaldo the famous soccer player had a glass knee replacement way back and he still did pretty good after that. Soccer requires a lot of running.
- timisondigglol, on 06/03/2008, -0/+4I do parkour and this is one of the things the parkour community is paranoid about. Joints don't come back like bone or muscle. They just become miserable and hard and eventually start wearing away at the bone. Then you'll have to get blood drawn twice a month and take liver-killing medicines like my mom does.
So pay attention to this one for any of you that do any high impact activities on concrete: parkour, tricking, skating, jogging on sidewalks, etc. Be safe kids.- PStuart, on 06/04/2008, -0/+2You can also break your ankle while playing football on grass, beware
- timisondigglol, on 06/05/2008, -0/+2yeah I know some ***** that did that.
- PStuart, on 06/04/2008, -0/+2You can also break your ankle while playing football on grass, beware
- Vertabreaker, on 06/03/2008, -0/+10Having had 3 knee surgeries from snowboarding(I'm 28yrs old) at least it's nice to hear that they're always progressing with procedures such as full knee replacement. I'm sure I'll be getting one down the road at some point.
- cwbrandsma, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1I've had 2 surgeries, and I have arthosis in my right (that isn't a spelling mistake, it is arthrosis, not arthritis). Basically, I'm missing some cartilage under my knee cap, broken off from a wrestling ingury. End result right now is that I can't run do to the pain, and even long walks are painful.
Based on my issues with my knees, I'm hoping to completely forgo knee replacement and actually have them "fixed" -- replace the missing cartilage with new cartilage, which means stem cells. Testing is underway on this, and I would see this as much better answer than knee replacements (which are never as good as the real thing).
- cwbrandsma, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1I've had 2 surgeries, and I have arthosis in my right (that isn't a spelling mistake, it is arthrosis, not arthritis). Basically, I'm missing some cartilage under my knee cap, broken off from a wrestling ingury. End result right now is that I can't run do to the pain, and even long walks are painful.
- Sunzi, on 06/03/2008, -5/+1Reminds me of an old joke,
A doctor has come to see one of his patients in a hospital. The patient has had major surgery to both of his hands.
"Doctor," says the man excitedly and dramatically holds up his heavily bandaged hands. "Will I be able to play the piano when these bandages come off?"
"I don't see why not," replies the doctor.
"That's funny," says the man. "I wasn't able to play it before." - sfrench, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1Knee replacement surgeries look pretty invasive too. Forward to about 1:10 in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gHhhwQDZQM
The hip replacement is another fun one... they actually drill out the ball joint with a special drill attachment.- erasorhed, on 06/03/2008, -0/+0Yes, the traditional knee replacement surgeries are brutal and have a long recovery time (because they cut through the quad muscle). More modern surgeries are less invasive because they can go in through the side with a much smaller incision. Recovery time is an average 2-3 days (!!!)
- ibanez81, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1Is this better than the boots that were made for walkin'?
- bloggeragent001, on 06/03/2008, -0/+2Modern science is getting better.
- mrgodai, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1i feel the imaginary pain in my knees as I read the article, and thinking about how they rip knees out and put in fake ones...
- erasorhed, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1I'm 27, too, have arthritis (since I was 10). Doctors have been telling me I am not going to be "eligible" for surgery until I'm 50. My daughter is 2 and I can't play with her because of the pain. I can't run, climb stairs, cross my legs, squat/bend my knees. I can't dance. I can't kneel. I can't ride a bicycle or play sports.
For as much as I am able to do I may as well be in a wheelchair (no, seriously).
And then my husband told me about the Zimmer gender knee a couple weeks ago. Full range of motion, 150 degrees. I am going to keep talking to different doctors until I meet one that says "yes, you can have knee replacement now!" - puba, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1The article said patients have reoprted problems having sex after knee replacements. Why was that not the title?
- GreatDrok, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1About 10 years (when I was 32) ago I was suffering from terrible knee pain due to tibial torsion. Normally your foot sits at between 10 and 15 degrees out from straight ahead. My left foot was at 11, my right at 37 and this meant I was having to walk strangely and it was destroying my hip and knee. After having arthroscopy they found the knee was functionally OK and a de-rotational osteotemy would fix the torsion. Essentially, they cut right through my tibia just below the knee, took off 25 degrees and then bolted it together again. The pain after surgery was pretty bad but it was great to wake up and see my foot pointing up. I half expected to wake up and for it to not be there at all.... Anyway, I was recovering in the same ward as people who had knee and hip replacement surgery and the moans of pain really make me glad I avoided having that. My operation was bad enough!
The annoying thing now is that my right leg is fine now, but my left knee is going..... Glad these replacements are getting functionally better since I will probably get stuck with one some time. - myranttoyou, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1Really, no bionics yet? Well no duh.
- pary07, on 06/08/2008, -0/+1It's all about maintaining the health of your joints after all :)
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