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To: bgill

Will be glad to add you back.

I have some trouble with knees now and then. Researched it. Dr. pointed out that the fluid that helps knees needs a bit of movement to get it where it’s needed.

He had the patients sit and let legs dangle. Then the moved the foot forward an inch or two and back. Several minutes several times a day.

I do it and it seems to help, but then I skip and it back slides. LOL

The Dr. said that he himself had been in a very bad accident, and rehabbed his knees that way-took a few years, because of how bad it was, but also because those parts of the knee totally replace every 4 years.


55 posted on 01/09/2019 8:03:51 PM PST by greeneyes
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To: greeneyes
those parts of the knee totally replace every 4 years

Really, huh?!? Well, that's most interesting. Actually, I just started to dangle my leg but will incorporate the movement.

I had lost weight by practically starving (hey, when you can't move to burn calories, you have to starve). The knee has improved from 18 months ago but I threw caution out the window when that same side's shoulder started hurting and have put weight back on the past few months. And now that side's heel is killing me. If it's not one thing it's another. Would like one day with nothing hurting.

56 posted on 01/10/2019 4:14:21 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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