Continuum Wellness News » ACL http://continuumwellness.org/blog Body, Mind & Soul Wellness Sat, 12 May 2012 15:38:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Bone Loss After Knee Surgery http://continuumwellness.org/blog/bone-loss-after-knee-surgery/ http://continuumwellness.org/blog/bone-loss-after-knee-surgery/#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 00:25:17 +0000 continuum wellness http://continuumwellness.org/blog/?p=171 Read more »]]> Why are so many people’s knees falling apart? Is surgery the answer? Read the results of two studies. In less fancy lingo, the surgery fails more often than the surgeons would like and on top of that for some unknown reason the problem in the repaired knee appears in the opposite knee.
The name of the journal study:
Risk of Tearing the Intact Anterior Cruciate Ligament in the Contralateral Knee and Rupturing the Anterior Cruciate Ligament Graft During the First 2 Years After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction. That’s a mouthful.
SOURCE: American Journal of Sports Medicine, July 2007.
For a clear overview of knee anatomy click this link: http://www.ehealthmd.com/library/acltears/ACL_whatis.html
A study published in December 2006 in Arthritis Care and Research showed that in knee surgery for the meniscus, the knee that was operated on, scored lower in all categories than the knee that was not operated on.
Researchers don’t know why this is.

My thought is that part of the answer lies in treating people like they are machines. Contemporary medical thought is if you perform surgery on the ailing part it should resolve the complaint.
But if you never address the why, how can you really heal?

Knee Deep in Meaning
Knee problems can relate to inner feelings of stubbornness, lack of flexibility, ego issues and pride. The knee can also represent how one feels towards progress and/or their resistance to it.

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