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I lived 72 yrs before the hip replacement and NEVER thought of a leg discrepancy. A podiatrist found it when he was working on me a couple yrs post op. Started wearing shoe lift and still do and also orthotics... but my body went out of alignment for those years after surgery. I did not know that as we don't know what to expect from a replacement, the first one for sure. I didn't.
So much is not disclosed until the body has done a lot of "settling" with it's new parts.
Blame?? I blame the surgery. And yes, as good as the surgeon is, I still blame his rush to get me done. Late Friday afternoon. My theory about it and I'm stickin with it. I've read enough yelp reviews on him and many people are very satisfied with his work and about 10 of us were not. And the yelp group will continue to grow as he will continue his work...he's fairly young in the whole scheme of ortho surgeons.
And as far as this Prolotherapy work, I do believe in it because it has worked in my life and that is good enough for me to continue my belief. And hopefully get more work down the road.
I feel strongly about 4 things that work for me and improve my life and one is Prolo.
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Blame?? I blame the surgery. And yes, as good as the surgeon is, I still blame his rush to get me done. Late Friday afternoon. My theory about it and I'm stickin with it.
I hesitate to ask but other than the shortening issue,which is more a result of the type of surgery, not how quickly it was done, what else did the poor guy do wrong?
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I've read enough yelp reviews on him and many people are very satisfied with his work and about 10 of us were not. .
I doubt any of us are surprised you were one of them
I hesitate to ask but other than the shortening issue,which is more a result of the type of surgery, not how quickly it was done, what else did the poor guy do wrong?
I doubt any of us are surprised you were one of them
Of course, why not tell the truth. Surgeons don't do everything right all the time..there are so many botched surgeries we'll NEVER hear about. You think surgeons have to live with what we are left with? No way. They are trained well. There is a code for medical surgical mistakes.
Would you do a review and tell a lie...or you probably wouldn't even do a review. MOST I'd say don't.
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So with any review be it for a vacation resort or for a medical procedure, I look at intent.
Is the reviewer posting to push some sort of ideology or is the reviewer posting to share an experience and inform.
Now when I see a review and it's clearly a vendetta because of a bad experience I know that person is really not trying to help or inform. They are simply trying to win converts over to their ideology and most of the time they use hyperbole to do it.
Surgery is stressful enough, to imply that a person who had a successful one is "lucky" or to imply that surgeons who do replacement surgery are doing it because the insurance industry will pay for it, is IMO only intended to scare people unnecessarily.
Are there medical mistakes, of course. I can't believe anybody in their right mind believes that there aren't any risk with surgery. There are risk with me getting on a plane and flying to Europe. I have a financial planner, I did my best and vetted him thoroughly but the reality is I could wake up and find out that he is bernie madoff jr and stolen my life savings.
The REALITY is knee replacement is extremely successful today with 85% of them going well after 20 years. are some of them not successful? absolutely. and again I do like hearing both sides to every thing, I do want to hear about alternatives.
So with any review be it for a vacation resort or for a medical procedure, I look at intent.
Is the reviewer posting to push some sort of ideology or is the reviewer posting to share an experience and inform.
Now when I see a review and it's clearly a vendetta because of a bad experience I know that person is really not trying to help or inform. They are simply trying to win converts over to their ideology and most of the time they use hyperbole to do it.
Surgery is stressful enough, to imply that a person who had a successful one is "lucky" or to imply that surgeons who do replacement surgery are doing it because the insurance industry will pay for it, is IMO only intended to scare people unnecessarily.
Are there medical mistakes, of course. I can't believe anybody in their right mind believes that there aren't any risk with surgery. There are risk with me getting on a plane and flying to Europe. I have a financial planner, I did my best and vetted him thoroughly but the reality is I could wake up and find out that he is bernie madoff jr and stolen my life savings.
The REALITY is knee replacement is extremely successful today with 85% of them going well after 20 years. are some of them not successful? absolutely. and again I do like hearing both sides to every thing, I do want to hear about alternatives.
I believe you need to go with what you believe is right for YOU.
I will NOT be doing anything invasive to my damaged knee from the infection and I'll report on that from what I heard from the ortho surgeon I saw yesterday.
I believe you need to go with what you believe is right for YOU.
I will NOT be doing anything invasive to my damaged knee from the infection and I'll report on that from what I heard from the ortho surgeon I saw yesterday.
Why are you seeing a surgeon???? I thought the medical field was full of evil, money hungry people?
Anyway, a surgery at 80 has its own set of issues....
I believe you need to go with what you believe is right for YOU.
I will NOT be doing anything invasive to my damaged knee from the infection and I'll report on that from what I heard from the ortho surgeon I saw yesterday.
I didn't know that you had a damaged knee from infection, so sorry to hear.
I believe you need to go with what you believe is right for YOU.
I will NOT be doing anything invasive to my damaged knee from the infection and I'll report on that from what I heard from the ortho surgeon I saw yesterday.
Oh absolutely and I respect that. If you noticed almost every poster has said that to some degree, EVERYONE has encouraged people to get the information and make their own decisions. What we are asking is that u cease with the false scare tactics, again there are many many possibilities out there knee replacement is just one but in order to make a good decision one needs truthful information.
Please keep us updated on any advances you come across, for all of us fighting this fight, we do want to know.
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