rhonda.sam
new member
Hello,
My Father is early 70s, fairly decent health.
Always had mild arthritis in knees and controlled it with exercise and keeping weight down.
In early 2016 he started getting pain in left knee, said it was torn meniscus and iced it twice a day.
It has been more than a year he has done this.
My Father is scared of surgery and when he heard of knee injections (rooster-comb), he wanted me to research for him (my Father had head injury nearly 20 years ago so learning new things like email, internet is difficult, hence I help).
It seems knee injections only buy a person time for surgery. However if it is safe to use knee injections for rest of life, my Father is more than happy with that.
Otherwise if he must have Arthroscopy surgery, please tell what to expect.
How to prepare for the surgery and how to recover from it? The recovery is what is most daunting from that I am reading about other type of surgeries.
Thank you.
My Father is early 70s, fairly decent health.
Always had mild arthritis in knees and controlled it with exercise and keeping weight down.
In early 2016 he started getting pain in left knee, said it was torn meniscus and iced it twice a day.
It has been more than a year he has done this.
My Father is scared of surgery and when he heard of knee injections (rooster-comb), he wanted me to research for him (my Father had head injury nearly 20 years ago so learning new things like email, internet is difficult, hence I help).
It seems knee injections only buy a person time for surgery. However if it is safe to use knee injections for rest of life, my Father is more than happy with that.
Otherwise if he must have Arthroscopy surgery, please tell what to expect.
How to prepare for the surgery and how to recover from it? The recovery is what is most daunting from that I am reading about other type of surgeries.
Thank you.