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garystil
Australia
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 Posted - 05/25/2009 : 17:17:08
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My sister suffers pain in her knee whenever she puts pressure on it. She is fine sitting and sleeping.
Scans show that her cartilage has worn away and that the pain results from bone rubbing on bone.
Her symptoms worsened 3 years ago when she tragically lost her daughter to cancer. She is in constant despair and cries every day about her loss.
Can TMS diminish her knee symptoms?
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garystil
Australia
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Posted - 05/25/2009 : 21:19:58
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There are some questions we wish we never asked !
The answer is clearly, yes. If I can get her to embrace it, I will provide an update on how she goes.
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crk
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Posted - 05/26/2009 : 13:41:43
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Are the docs calling it "chondromalacia?" Sarno says that is tms.
I have a huge problem with diagnoses like this, because they assume that the human body is like a car that gets worn out. Well, is she 90 years old? I plan to be in fine shape even then, but shoot, this is always 30 and 40 year olds that get these supposed "degenerative" problems. It just reeks of tms b.s. to me.
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Jorgen_C
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Posted - 05/28/2009 : 13:08:24
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| I'm very curious about whether loss of cartilage causes pain or not. My mother is a nurse (she does not know about TMS except my new disregard for structural pain causes. She says that people come to her work with no cartilage left in the hip at all for replacement - and some have pain and some don't have pain. |
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Albert
USA
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Posted - 05/29/2009 : 10:59:06
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I once read about a study where they did arthroscopic knee surgery on patients, 50% had the cartilage scrapped away, 50% didn't. The participants weren't told who had the cartilage scrapped away, so a placebo effect wouldn't be a factor. The patients that didn't have the cartilage scrapped away ended up doing better than the patients that did have the cartilage scrapped away.
I'm not an expert on the matter, but I figure it would be best to find a way to help your cartilage heal, rather than scraping it completely away.
Have you ever noticed how a lot of professional athletes get knee surgery (along with back surgery), yet they don't get better?
If a lack of cartilage supposedly causes pain, then why do they remove it during arthroscopic surgery?
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Gabitor
Argentina
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Posted - 06/01/2009 : 21:12:32
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Non existent cartilage for sure affects the movility of the knee, but by no means is th cause of the pain. I saw lots of hips and knees without cartilage without any pain.
Greetings from Argentina !!!
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Non existent cartilage in knee
