Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter walks through a patient's years of chronic knee pain, from steroid injections and NSAIDs that caused an ulcer to arthroscopy revealing mild arthritis. The patient faced steroid injections, lubrication shots, and physical therapy before considering knee replacement.
Now you're frustrated. Now you're like me. Now you've had years of treatment with no progress, been treated for your knee pain for years. You were the high school quarterback, you had some injuries about 10 years ago, your knees started to hurt. You went to see your primary care doctor, you got a steroid injection, you got an anti inflammatory, you might have developed an ulcer from your anti inflammatory. You were referred to an orthopedic surgeon after you had pain for about three years and he told you well let's do this knee scope. So you got a knee scope, he told you you got a little arthritis, you might need a knee replacement eventually. And then he said we can do steroid injections, we can do this lubrication injection that may or may not work, we could do physical therapy. So now you're frustrated, now you're like me. Now you've had years of treatment with no progress and eventually you might need a knee replacement.
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