[rollei_list] Re: Knee Jobs and Zerk Fittings
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:13:00 -0700
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From: "Marc James Small" <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 3:37 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Knee Jobs and Zerk Fittings
At 11:13 PM 7/20/2008, Don Williams wrote:
All it takes is a long large needle, expertly inserted into
the space between the knee bones.
Not at all painful if you get a little freeze spray and a
small local to kill the pain of insertion.
I would be willing to bet that you don't know, off hand,
what they use or where they get the lube the use for a year
or so before you really need a replacement.
(Viscosupplementation is the process by the way). The lube
I'm thinking of comes after Cortisone injections and before
replacement surgery.
Well, no. I have had a steroid injection in my
bad knee and my wife had two in her bad knee
leading up to surgery. Neither of us had
anything of the sort you are
discussing. Steroids work for a while to ease
the pain but are hardly a permanent solution.
My wife is now complaining that her new knee is
"squeaking". So, I dug out my grease gun in
order to lube the joint but the doctor had
installed a defective unit which was lacking the
Zerk fittings. We are to go in to see him
Thursday and I will have to ask him about this problem.
I am cheerfully antedilvuian and normally install
Zerk fittings on all of those "permanently lubed"
joints which, historically, fail at 35,000 miles
or so. To be fair, I deliverately have not done
this on my 1984 Audi 4000S, and it has had the
ball joints replaced once in its 300,000 miles of
road service. So, maybe "permanently lubed"
joints are now, well, "long-term lubed".
Marc
I have not had knee problems (well, I have but not that
badly) but have had cortisone epidurals for my back. At best
they help a lot but not for more than a few days. Its enough
to help get healing started but no more. If you have too
many epidurals the stretching from the liquid can cause more
trouble than it cures. I've found I can avoid epidurals by
taking large doses of Sodium Naproxin for a few days (I can
tollerate it), works just about as well.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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