Taking Care of Joints

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Taking Care of Joints

As much as Dr. Sean Haslam loves performing surgery, he certainly wouldn’t object if people would take good enough care of themselves to avoid – or at least postpone – it.

“Anytime we can get something to help patients without surgery,” says the orthopedic surgeon, “it’s good for everybody.”

But people don’t seem to be paying attention. The number of knee replacements is up 165 percent in the past 20 years and, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, could exceed 3.5 million by 2030.

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