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Step-By-Step Explanation Of Knee Replacement

Dr. Harlan Selesnick, Orthopedic Surgeon at Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute, explains the articular cartilage lines every bone in our body and when it wears thin down to raw bone becomes very painful and a total knee replacement surgery is needed. According to him, the criteria for doing a knee replacement is not based on X-ray or MRI, for the most part is when you can't live with the pain, you can't sleep or walk or travel, because it is too painful.

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