November 14th, 2008 
Von by DR. JOSE S. PUJALTE JR.
YOU’RE out of denial now. Yes, the hurt in the knees hasn’t really been going away even on a diet of pain pills. And yes, you’ve have just about enough of the incapacitation and the boredom.
In fact, you’ve been rightly proactive about the whole thing. Regular visits to the orthopedic specialist confirmed the worsening osteoarthritis of the knee. It’s been three years of enduring the pain but you’ve been a good patient. You took the medicine (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and much later, the COX-2 inhibitors) and the food supplements (glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate). You even managed to lose a few pounds, on the recommendation of the doctor that lessening the load on the knees might ease some of the suffering.
Yet the pain remained. (more…)
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