Knee Replacements for Athletes and Superstars: The Playing Field of Life

By Don Long

Knee Replacements for Athletes and Superstars: The Playing Field of Life is a comprehensive field guide exclusively for sports enthusiasts who want to learn more about the process of replacing worn out knees with the expectation of continuing to be an athlete after surgery. This is not a pamphlet on exercise or how-to positions. I do not go into deep detail on the mechanics of the knee or anatomy of the human muscular system. This field guide is designed with powerful insight on information you don't read in the brochures, and can't find on the Internet. The super information highway does not warn you to get baby wipes instead of plain toilet paper for your soon to be very sore bottom. I found no plan of action to take when your femoral block wears off after surgery. The WWW offers very little insight on the best system to ice down with after a hard workout or what happens when you "overdo it" during rehab. The purpose of this pamphlet is to be the best five dollars you spend in your decision process for a Total Knee Replacement (TKR). My goal is to offer helpful information on my personal experience and personal advice regarding TKR. You will not find pages and pages of diagrams or exercising positions and diet recipes. You will find some of my experiences and insight that will hopefully help you on your road to recovery and back on to the Playing Field of Life. The WWW is seriously packed with miles and miles of information and knowledge but offers not one step of wisdom. In the year 2014 at the age of fifty-nine years old I personally exchanged two worn out severely arthritic knees for two brand new super strong, super lightweight, corrosion-resistant titanium knee systems. In less than ten months I personally underwent two separate Total Knee Replacements (TKR), two separate rehabilitation processes, and two similar life paths that got me back on my surfboard, back into my golf cart and back on my bicycle with little downtime. I did not plan on a surgery that reset my life clock twenty-five years. I never realized that your knees are actually what carry you down your life's paths. I never understood the term "major surgery" or realized how difficult and life-threatening a knee replacement is. Now after two separate surgeries on two separate knees I realize how discipline and stopping the life forward process long enough to listen to your mind and paying close attention to your body is essential for a better quality of life. Sixty is the new forty...Thanks to new technology and spiritually guided surgeons forty is the new thirty.https://www.youtube.com/watch'v=wDIunOO9zqU

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1520719035
• ISBN13: 9781520719030
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 107 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.3" x 8.0"