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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 358058" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>My good friend had a bad fall (slipped on some berries fallen from a bush onto concrete, it was like stepping onto ball bearings, she said) and it totally stuffed up her knee. But because it was a compo matter, it took a few years before proper medical intervention happened (although she should have been operated on when the ambulance brought her in that night).</p><p></p><p>My friend's knee was not only bone on bone, but it would constantly dislocate, the patella just wasn't tracking properly and kept slipping out. My friend would have to push her kneecap back into position. It really was a big problem for her.</p><p></p><p>She would have been almost 50 when the finally operated. By this time her patella looked like a mere sliver of bone, it had been worn so much. What they did was drill through the patella, threaded the new carbon-fibre tendons through the kneecap (so it can't ever dislocate again) and carefully put her back together. She made a good recovery and is doing fine now. </p><p>She needed to use crutches for a few weeks, so rather than hire the under the arm kind which hurt, she bought a set of canada crutches to use (for about the same cost as a hire fee) and when she no longer needed them, she sold them to me for half price because I needed new ones (my previous ones were ten years old at that time).</p><p></p><p>She's still going well, no problems at all with her knee. She's gone back to doing a lot of the home renovations she always wanted to do.</p><p></p><p>Another point - she is a very large lady and her weight was also aggravating the problems. But despite this, she has done well. It's a lot easier to lose weight when you need to, if you can move well.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 358058, member: 1991"] My good friend had a bad fall (slipped on some berries fallen from a bush onto concrete, it was like stepping onto ball bearings, she said) and it totally stuffed up her knee. But because it was a compo matter, it took a few years before proper medical intervention happened (although she should have been operated on when the ambulance brought her in that night). My friend's knee was not only bone on bone, but it would constantly dislocate, the patella just wasn't tracking properly and kept slipping out. My friend would have to push her kneecap back into position. It really was a big problem for her. She would have been almost 50 when the finally operated. By this time her patella looked like a mere sliver of bone, it had been worn so much. What they did was drill through the patella, threaded the new carbon-fibre tendons through the kneecap (so it can't ever dislocate again) and carefully put her back together. She made a good recovery and is doing fine now. She needed to use crutches for a few weeks, so rather than hire the under the arm kind which hurt, she bought a set of canada crutches to use (for about the same cost as a hire fee) and when she no longer needed them, she sold them to me for half price because I needed new ones (my previous ones were ten years old at that time). She's still going well, no problems at all with her knee. She's gone back to doing a lot of the home renovations she always wanted to do. Another point - she is a very large lady and her weight was also aggravating the problems. But despite this, she has done well. It's a lot easier to lose weight when you need to, if you can move well. Marg [/QUOTE]
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