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15 Things You Need to Know About Knee Replacement

When a damaged knee impacts everything you do—even getting out of a chair or up and down stairs—you may have to consider knee replacement. Here's what you need to know.
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Fitness: Prehab your aching joints in advance of surgery

The official term for training prior to surgery is prehabilitation (prehab) and is often guided by a physiotherapist or strength and conditioning specialist. The goal is to limit the deterioration of ...
Boosting fitness level before a major operation could halve the chances of complications afterwards, a study has shown. And ...
Each year, nearly half of all runners in the U.S. wrestle with some type of pain or injury. The most commonly affected area, totaling 27 percent of running injuries is—you guessed it—the knee. If you ...
When former Olympian Joan Benoit Samuelson ran the 2022 London Marathon, she knew she was taking a risk. It would be her first 26.2-mile race since undergoing a partial right knee replacement in 2020, ...
Murray, 74, leaned into low-impact, high-intensity workouts when knee arthritis forced her to give up running and plyometrics ...