Dr. Joshua Schacter and Dr. Mark Hawass discuss managing severe knee arthritis before replacement surgery. Cortisone injections have limits, oral painkillers carry risks like gut damage and weight gain, and autologous injections offer an alternative approach.
Worse your arthritis is, the more likely you are to continue to have symptoms. But what better to inject in there than your own?
Exactly. Because at those. At that stage, when you're waiting for knee replacement surgery, cortisone is out of the question. Because if you get called for surgery sooner, you're gonna have a high risk of complication, infection, maybe even failed surgery.
That's right.
So they're kind of stuck in between. I'm booked for surgery, but I have no alternative other than just popping pills for painkillers. And most of those people gonna have rotting gut, gain weight. And the worst part is when they get the surgery or the outcome is not there.
Right.
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