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Non-surgical solutions for dealing with knee pain, and advice on what to do if surgery is unavoidable.Each year, millions of people go to their doctors complaining of knee pain, often resulting in MRIs and knee surgeries. Dr. Grelsamer, named one of the best doctors in New York by New York magazine for the last three years in a row, exposes the potential dangers of misread MRIs and explains why, in many cases surgery is not necessary to alleviate knee pain, and provides helpful advice on different procedures when surgery is unavoidable. With rehabilitation exercises and step-by-step guides, he provides comprehensive information on relieving pain due to virtually every knee condition, including arthritis, runners knee, torn ligaments and cartilage, tendinitis and more.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #262606 in Books
• Published on: 2002-02-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

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Almost 400,000 joint replacements are performed annually in the United States. In WHAT YOUR DOCTOR MAY NOT TELL YOU ABOUT HIP AND KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY, Dr. Ronald Grelsamer takes the reader through the exact nature of hip and knee replacement surgery. He covers the history and evolution of hip and joint implants, the significant differences between types of implants, the risks and limitations of replacement surgery and the need-to-know facts for a lasting recovery, including a step-by-step physical program to recover from surgery in the shortest time possible. In seventeen accessible chapters Dr. Grelsamer covers every area of concern that a patient may have and enable them to take control, ask the right questions and avoid the common mistakes that so often get made, usually at the patient's expense.

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Almost 400,000 joint replacements are performed annually in the United States. In WHAT YOUR DOCTOR MAY NOT TELL YOU ABOUT HIP AND KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY, Dr. Ronald Grelsamer takes the reader through the exact nature of hip and knee replacement surgery. He covers the history and evolution of hip and joint implants, the significant differences between types of implants, the risks and limitations of replacement surgery and the need-to-know facts for a lasting recovery, including a step-by-step physical program to recover from surgery in the shortest time possible. In seventeen accessible chapters Dr. Grelsamer covers every area of concern that a patient may have and enable them to take control, ask the right questions and avoid the common mistakes that so often get made, usually at the patient's expense.

Customer Reviews

Helpful, but a little cynical
Small book that is easy to read, but somewhat out of date (as another reviewer noted, no info about some of the newer options like hip resurfacing). Read the excerpts here; e.g., first few pages are a little bit cynical, but guess that goes with the title.

good book
very good advice , highly recommend, somewhat skeptical of medical field with good suggestions of how to avoid problems by asking the right questions(I'm in the medical field and agree with his views) john

Out of Date
Unfortunately, this book does not go into any detail that you can't easily find on the web. It's out of date; no coverage of the new hip resurfacing techniques.