Re: possible knee replacement

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Have you spoken with the Dr about any kind of bracing for you knee?

You may have a few options that can help to releive some of the pain.

If you are looking for something to help with the patella, there are

braces that are designed to track your patella into its correct

anatomical postion. In regards to the arthritis you may able to try

an unloader brace. This brace is designed to relieve some of the

stress and wear and tear on your knee joint. I have used braces like

this on patients in the past when their only other option was surgery.

I have found for the most part the braces to be helpful. Now by that

I mean that has helped to relieve some of the pain and lessen the wear

on the joint. It may be worth a try before having a joint

replacement. If you decide to try some bracing options let me know

and I can offer suggestions on different models that may work for you.

Happy New Year.

Fager

ABC Registered Fitter of Orthotics

> hello my name is I am a 27 yr old male truck driver, I fell out

> of my semi in july of this year and shattered my knee cap and tore all

> the muscles in my left knee, Since then I have been home and had

> surgery to repair my patella and meniscus, the surgery went good for a

> while but now I am in horrible pain on a daily basis the doctor told

> me that I have what is called Chrondomalacia patella Synvitis, torn

> medial meniscus and degenerative Osteoarthris and that my arthritis is

> so bad that the only way he can releive the pain is to do a total knee

> replacement but at my age that posses a lot of problems in the future.

> " you'll have to excuse my typing " Also has told me that there is no

> way that I will ever get behind the wheel of my semi truck again. So

> basically I am in limbo and would like some opinions on surgery or

> other options.

>

> thanks you

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