How I Chose My Surgeon

Note: Ever since a college soccer injury almost 40 years ago, I've had serious issues with my knee. This is the first in a three-part series that talks about my own very recent knee surgery--from the process of choosing the best possible surgeon through my recovery and return to a more active life -- Dr. Kevin Stone As an orthopedic surgeon, picking another orthopedic surgeon to operate on your own knee is tricky. It was tough enough when my wife insisted that I operate on her knee. She rightly felt that no one else would care about her as much as I did. And since I had invented the procedures to replace her arthritic knee with new meniscus and re-grown articular cartilage, she felt that she was in the best hands [1]. Seven years later, she's still hiking and skiing. But back to my knee. I had lost my own meniscus cartilage to a college soccer injury. I remember the moment of extending my leg to stop a goal and getting twisted up with the ball striker. While I admired the orthopedic surgeon who operated on me, his choice to remove my meniscus was fatal to my knee. Removing it cured the pain, but the loss of that key shock absorber set my knee on an inevitable course to arthritis... [2] While I continued to run and play sports for 20 years, I ultimately had to give up first running, then tennis, then hiking. Eventually, walking any distance was painful. Despite the fact that my entire career was dedicated to keeping people active by replacing their cartilage and biologica...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news