My Book About How I Beat Chronic Knee Pain Is on Amazon

January 23, 2011

Just wanted to let people here know that " Saving My Knees: How I Proved My

Doctors Wrong and Beat Chronic Knee Pain " is now on Amazon.com (it's an

electronic book, which can be read on a Kindle, an iPad, an iPhone, a regular PC

-- or on just about any high-tech gizmo).

I'm a journalist in my late 40s. I had chondromalacia patella, and it just kept

getting worse. Physical therapy (I went for nine months) didn't help. I was

frustrated, angry, depressed. I couldn't figure out why I wasn't healing. Then I

began to do my own experimenting and research, reading everything I could get my

hands on, including some very complex medical stuff, and I realized that the

" story " about how to treat chondromalacia, or patellofemoral pain syndrome, was

probably wrong in a number of important ways.

I dropped off the doctor/PT merry-go-round and devoted myself to a long, slow

program of healing. My full recovery took almost two years, but now my knees are

as normal as anyone else's.

" Saving My Knees " is meant to be a readable, interesting story -- with a

beginning, middle and end -- and with a serious message. I don't just say " this

worked for me, this didn't, etc. etc. " I cite medical studies and build a case

that dares to challenge some of the prevailing orthodoxies when it comes to

treating bad knees.

What is patellofemoral pain syndrome, really, and does that diagnosis even make

sense? Is glucosamine any good? What about the value of arthroscopic surgery to

clean up the knee joint? What have scientific studies shown about how cartilage

defects change over time -- do they always get worse or can they sometimes get

better? What good does stretching do? What about stretching the iliotibial band?

Are all knee problems caused by mistracking, or does this paradigm have some

serious flaws?

All those questions I deal with in the book ... I know that Jenni, who is also

part of this group, has begun to read " Saving My Knees " and hopefully she'll

post her own comments/review. Meanwhile, I encourage people to take a look. This

is meant to be a story of HOPE, and I think that's really important when you're

struggling with constant knee pain.

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