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Posted By: Earl22
Date: Thursday, 21 January 2010, at 1:50 a.m.
In Response To: Consent to Meniscus Surgery = Sign Me up for Premature Arthritis! (OhKneeWoes)
Not sure if this is "positive" but consider that no one *really* knows how your knee will fair. So it is possible, you'd be fine or nearly so. Although a lot of research is published, and a lot of Dr's claim such and such, and statistics are published supporting one, or the other, or both, what is happening to you in particular is *still* poorly understood and therefore not as predictable as you might read from the above claims. For those who *understand* these publications, and have studied the issues involved, those intellectually honest people will tell you we do not understand diddly about how a knee, injured such as yours, will behave.
People have a hard time *really* understanding correlations, thats just the way our brain is wired-up, and a lot of the literature on that topic is just correlations amongst a few, select variables (parameters?). Most, if not all the evidence out there has no physical mechanism supporting it at the cellular level. ie, people just dont know. And this is not thermodynamics, where the ensembles behavior can be predicted. here, the individual cellular response of a few changes the overall organ outcome. Your surgeon may act like he knows, and thinks he knows, for better or for worse he is acting on that understanding, and maybe he should admit this is the best he's got..and thats fair.
no one can tell you whether youlll have significant problems..you maybe just fine. you're young, sounds like you have a chance for your body to heal itself...just dont go twisting your knee around playing soccer on grass for ex ;-)
> I had my ACL reconstructed about 6.5 years ago with a
> hamstring autograft. In January, I am scheduled to undergo
> a partial meniscectomy, and I can't help but think only
> negative thoughts! How did you guys mentally prepare
> yourselves for your meniscectomies? Do not read further if
> you don't want to be depressed or get easily annoyed with
> adults who whine.
> I'm still a few weeks away, but I feel like I just joined a
> waiting list for premature osteoarthritis and a lifetime of
> limitations. I mean, sure I'll be able to swim and walk
> pain free for the next 10 years or so. But every time I
> want to ski, or run, or take a boxing class, or dance, or
> even wear high heels I imagine I will feel like, "oh
> boy, deposit another penny in the arthritis bank! I'm one
> day closer to arthritis now!" It seems like, no matter
> how little the surgeon cuts out, I'm guaranteed premature
> arthritis. I'm 29 and I am just so sad thinking about being
> 39 and having osteoarthritis!
> Seriously, give me some good thoughts! I need some positive
> people!!
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