Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with chiropractic, I turned to acupuncture out of distaste for the recommended medical alternative. In 1983 I injured my knee in a wind-surfing accident. After scanning X rays, an emergency-room doctor immobilized my leg, gave me a pair of crutches and suggested surgery. Before going ahead, I decided to invest $60 and visit an elderly Chinese acupuncturist recommended by a decidedly non-New Age investment banker in New York City. I do not like needles, but I like surgery even less; as it turned out, the worst of the experience was feeling a mild electric tingling. Forty minutes...
...anterior cruciate ligament is one of the two ligaments in the knee that provide the stability which holds the knee together...
When the doctors allowed her to finally start rehabilitating her knee, Johnston worked out a strenuous three hours every...
That spring, wearing a cumbersome knee brace, she led her school team to the Colorado semifinals while leading the state in scoring...
...twinge in his groin. You feel naked. You feel that you (yes, you) have made some ghastly mistake, sent the wrong signals, led him along. At first you try to pretend it didn't happen. You may do what I once did and keep lifting his hand off your knee as if it were some object that happened to fall there. You may even maintain the fiction of friendship for years, because anything is better than being demoted, in your own mind, to a deletable four-letter word...