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end stage cmp

Dec 04, 2010 - Comments: 0

Hi newby here but have visited several times,.  I would like to hear from anyone that knows the ropes on cmp.  I know what it is, and I had scopes with lg plica removal and chrondroplasty.. It was discovered that I had 50% loss of cartliage to the bone. Nothing wrong with any other part of the knee...

I am NOT Supergirl

Nov 20, 2010 - Comments: 0

It's an ungodly hour, yet I'm still awake, with, apparently, nothing to do. The shoulder pain has finally subsided.  I had my first day out, you see, apart from hospital visits and work.  A trip to my favourite restaurant, and shopping at the craft market.  My friends and mother have been most obliging in pushing me along in a rented wheelchair.  I think I made about 5 full rotations of the wheels myself, hence the shoulder pain.  I had injections too, and the pain in the left shoulder was alleviated, but the right dug its...

Nick’s Medial Plica Excision & Fat Pad One Year Post Op

Nov 16, 2010 - Comments: 0

One year after having had surgery on my right knee on Monday 16th November 2009 and have seen no vast improvements so far apart from no catching anymore on the...

Patella fracture - How to recover from muscle loss

Oct 19, 2010 - Comments: 1

I am really lucky to find this forum. I had non displaced patella fracture 6 months ago.I was able to do my leg raises in 3 months. I am doing my excercise as advised by my physio but still i am having problem while climbing any stairs.

I can climb stairs...

My daughters upcoming surgery

Oct 14, 2010 - Comments: 0

I am feeling very confused as I can not find information on this exact procedure.  I also can not figure out how to ask questions on this site.  My daughter who is a 20 year old college student is schedule for this surgery on her left knee on Tuesday then the right knee 6 weeks later.  I am trying to figure out what we are to expect.  She will still have classes.  Her doctor told her a week of bed rest after a day in the hospital...and then on...

Patella instability Rehabilitation advice.. Please read below

Sep 04, 2010 - Comments: 0

I have had a complete patella dislocation a 15months ago in a soccer injury and had surgery to reattach the knee cap,ligaments and cartlidge was damaged and a ...

HARDWARE REMOVAL Type V Tibial Plateau fracture bicondylar w cadaver

Aug 10, 2010 - Comments: 0

I had a fracture as described above Sep 2009 and have just had my 9 screws and large plate removed July 29 2010.  I had pressure and uncomfortableness on a continual basis, except when laying down.  As a past triathlete and active sports player the injury changed my lifestyle and the hardware especially.. It has been a week now since the operation -removal of hardware and i already feel a release of that continual pressure and plain unnaturalness.  I...

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The lateral meniscus is the shockabsorber on the outer side of the knee (the lateral side), between tibia and femur.

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