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kimberlyh
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Has anyone ever had a "lateral release" as part of arthroscopic surgery?
I just went to my orthopedic surgeon today after waiting nearly 2 months for an appointment. She took x-rays from angles I'd never had done before and I have some really weird-looking kneecaps that are not positioned where they should be. I also need to have my cartilage cleaned up a bit, so she's recommending arthroscopy to clean it up and do a procedure calleda "lateral release" that will adjust the angle of my kneecap. She said that in 75% of her patients, they recover to full (and painfree) use of their knees. Those sound like good odds to me.
Here's my dilemma: I can have the surgery as early as Monday. She said that rehab will take about three months. That has me "cured" a few weeks before the Cathe trip.
What would you do in my position? Would you go for it in the hopes that participation in the Cathe trip (and the Firm trip the previous weekend) is good possibility, or would you wait and have the surgery done after October, even if it means a few more months of painful knees? I need to decide really quickly.
I just went to my orthopedic surgeon today after waiting nearly 2 months for an appointment. She took x-rays from angles I'd never had done before and I have some really weird-looking kneecaps that are not positioned where they should be. I also need to have my cartilage cleaned up a bit, so she's recommending arthroscopy to clean it up and do a procedure calleda "lateral release" that will adjust the angle of my kneecap. She said that in 75% of her patients, they recover to full (and painfree) use of their knees. Those sound like good odds to me.
Here's my dilemma: I can have the surgery as early as Monday. She said that rehab will take about three months. That has me "cured" a few weeks before the Cathe trip.
What would you do in my position? Would you go for it in the hopes that participation in the Cathe trip (and the Firm trip the previous weekend) is good possibility, or would you wait and have the surgery done after October, even if it means a few more months of painful knees? I need to decide really quickly.