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If you could spend just one day walking/hobbling/crutching in the shoes of someone with severe recurring arthrofibrosis you might be a little more empathetic towards those of us that are "freaked out by arthrofibrosis".
Re: Arthrofibrosis being "highly preventable" it all depends on your definition. But I'd say that's a pretty ill-advised statement. Between them, Drs. Steadm and Noyes have roughly 50 years of specialized knee surgery experience. And each of them told me to my face that sometimes arthrofibrosis just happens, no matter what the surgeon and patient do to prevent it.
So it is quite clear that while many cases of arthrofibrosis could have potentially been remediated, caught earlier, treated better, or maybe even prevented...there is still a significant element of CHANCE, LUCK, and GENETICS at work here. When you go beyond reading a few articles on the net about arthrofibrosis, you start to realize that. And when you've done everything "right" -- from the right surgeon to the right procedure to the right therapy and post-op medication/injection regime -- and you STILL have arthrofibrosis develop/return, then you truly start to gain an understanding of this 'cancer of the knee.'