Word: knee
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Surgery to replace the body's injured or worn-out joints has also risen dramatically. Between 1983 and 1993, the number of hip replacements swelled from 49,000 to 83,000, and knee replacements almost quadrupled, to 131,000. Typically following fractures, the surgery restored patients to the level of mobility they enjoyed before the bone break. That has meant liberation from a walker or wheelchair--and from a housebound existence...
...perhaps the biggest addition to the corps of middies is senior Kevin Silva, whose entire 1995 campaign was wiped out by a knee injury...
...OSTEOARTHRITIS of the knee, one of the most common forms of disabling arthritis, is much more likely to progress in people who get less than about 200 IUs of vitamin D daily. But using supplements can be risky; in large doses the vitamin is toxic...
...nurse stretches out his arms, legs and fingers to retain their flexibility and elasticity. Often his limbs will fight against the exercise. His hands will quiver, his legs will shake. "The nurse will take my leg out to one side," he says. "He's fighting to hold the knee down and the foot up. Then he'll bring it back to the middle and fight to bring my knee up to my chest. My whole leg is fighting, the foot flapping. But he holds on. You can hear the joints crunch...
...body. Like it has nothing to do with me. But I look to see how the muscle tone is doing because we work very hard on that. My legs are really getting strong, particularly the thigh and calf. The nurse will hold the leg straight up, holding the knee with one hand and the foot with the other and pushing with all his body weight. I can't feel anything in the right leg; I just stare at it. But I feel the tension in the left...