I was sitting in my home office last evening (which my wife affectionately calls my “rat hole”), as the sun set and darkness crept over the room. I was answering the comments and questions that my recent emails about knee pain engendered.
I got a few from some pretty far flung places around the world, mostly saying “Thanks,” in so many words, for the advice and encouragement they had received from my email tips. No crank mail, this time. That’s always a plus.
Every so often I get some folks who think that I work for them, or who think they know better than I do about my own field. No way I can ever reach those types-they’ve already made up their minds and there’s no more room in there for any new ideas.
I generally suggest that they’d probably be happier elsewhere. (I was known for occasionally doing that, even when I was in practice-I decided early on that I couldn’t make 100% of the people happy, no matter what I did, so why put up with vexation?)
None of that this time, though, which was a blessing.
Then, I came across an email from one of my old patients, who is now a subscriber. He told me that the total hip replacement I did on him over 22 years ago had needed to be revised, but the total knee I had done was still doing well at 21 years… and counting.
Now, this man was very young when I did his surgery, which is normally not done. But he has a particularly nasty form of inflammatory arthritis, which destroyed his hip joint in under six months, from the diagnosis. We had no choice.
But the fact that the hip lasted over 22 years in such a young active man was a major achievement. And his total knee is still surviving and going strong.
That news alone was enough to give me a sense of satisfaction that my skills were proving to be as good as I always believed them to be (Hey, you’ve gotta have mega self confidence, if you’re going to be a surgeon-can’t be tentative or timid and expect excellent results. You have to believe in yourself and your ability!).
But what really made my day was that he told me that he wished he was still my patient, not just my subscriber. He said that he knows he needs to get another orthopaedist, but he doesn’t feel as comfortable with anyone, as he did with me.
Well. That made me feel pretty good, indeed. Made my whole day, in fact. I was really touched and very grateful that he would take the time from his busy day to email me that message.
For me, that’s what it was always all about-helping my patients to get rid of their pain, changing their lives for the better.
I try to do the same thing today.
Nothing makes me happier than to have someone write me that they have “no more knee pains,”as a result of following my advice, or my specially modified knee pain exercises.
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You know, when I broke my back, it ended my surgical career. But I chose to be grateful that I hadn’t been paralyzed, or killed outright (which I certainly could have been). I not only screwed up my back, but my knees, as well.
That’s how I know that these exercises work. They’re the same ones that I’ve used myself, for my own arthritic knees, and the very same ones that I prescribed for my patients, for lo those many moons.
And now, they’ve been completely renovated and updated, with new photographs and a completely new DVD, to show you exactly how to do them, for best results. No need to guess, anymore.
Quadriceps exercises, hamstring exercises, calf exercises and complimentary stretches for the quads, ITB, hamstrings and so on. All modified, so you eliminate pain, not aggravate it, by actually changing the dynamics of the knee joint.
Every exercise is demonstrated for you, so you can get rid of that nagging knee pain, for good!
If you are one of those rare people, like my former patient, who have aggressive, rapidly advancing, end stage joint disease, you might need joint replacement surgery, as he did.
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Til next time, my friend, be well. Talk to you again, soon.
Yours for a pain-free tomorrow and your optimal health,
Dr. Bill
“The Wellness Warrior” TM
