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Old 12-19-2014, 12:07 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Keith View Post
I've talked about going in for surgery and how they kept asking me what knee they were going to operate on.
My wife had Articular Cartilage Restoration in both knees (one at a time). They scraped out bits of damaged cartilage from behind the kneecap and grew replacement clone cells in a laboratory to re-insert later!

The recovery was the worst. You cannot bend your knee for 6 weeks afterwards, by which time the muscles have atrophied. So rehab is around a year ... then she got the other one done.

The doctor "marked up" the knee for surgery. I added a note to the other one in a sharpie "WRONG LEG"
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