Is It Time For Joint Surgery? Here's How To Know
More than a million people have a hip or knee replaced every year. Many of them wish they'd done it sooner
By Jenny Cook December 20, 2017
Alison Ripa, 59, of Sterling, MA, paid a price for ignoring the pain in her left knee. When she was a teenager, she'd badly injured it in a softball game. Injured joints are often more vulnerable to osteoarthritis later in life, and sure enough, the disease developed decades later in Ripa's knee. "My husband, my son, and my daughter all said the same thing: 'Your knee is in a permanent bent position, and you're miserable,' " she says. "I didn't feel good, and everyone around me was being affected." Still, she resisted having joint replacement surgery: "I tend to put pain on the back burner and just suck it up." (Here are 6 things your joint pain is trying to tell you.)
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