Hello,
I’m on a waiting list in Canada for a complicated knee replacement. My knee/leg is abnormal due to a previous accident.
I’m wondering, since my knee is now bone on bone can this device help with the pain? I have other pains I’m using it on and will report on that later!
Thanks
Shelley
In my experience, absolutely, yes! There is also a research article on pain management with it among other things - check out Dr. Bob Dennis’ other site at micro-pulse.com as well. My friend used ICES PEMF (in her case the M1 I let her borrow) for bone on bone jaw pain and found relief for the first time in years.
Oh great! Thank you very much for your response! I’ll use it there right away. Thank you!
If you’re in Canada, I don’t know if this would be helpful information for you: two of my friends had kneecap replacement surgery, one in Edmonton, and another in Vancouver. Both found the post-op very painful and took months of rehab before they were able to walk. Both were not able to recover full use of those knees: every time they walked, they experienced a lot of pain. Both of them were also waiting for surgery to be done on the second knee.
After the first surgery, my friend in Edmonton decided not to go ahead with the second one, figuring if she did so, her knee would be worse off than it was now with the bone-on-bone pain. She now walks with a cane when she is able to walk at all.
For my second friend in Vancouver, my mother referred her to a hospital in Taiwan that would do the surgery and have her walking by the next day. She spent about $10,000 CAD, had the surgery done and sure enough, was walking the next day, with hardly any pain. She asked them if they could redo the first knee to make it better, unfortunately, they said no.
That was about four years ago, and she now walks fine without pain on that knee, though the first one still requires her to support herself with a cane.
Of course, not all knee surgeries go bad, but I hear too many horror stories here in Canada, whereasTaiwan is well known in Asia for both Chinese and western medicine. They book you in, process the payments, you stay there for about 3 days, and during those 3 days, you make arrangements for someone to bring food to you (many hospitals in Asia do not offer meals during your stay). If you can afford it, I would recommend it.
Best wishes.
My husbands experience was that PEMF did help with the pain prior to his partial knee replacement. Unfortunately, once you are bone on bone the cartilage will not grow back. The other benefit besides pain relief for my husband was that after his surgery he healed in about half the time.
There has been research that showed PEMF greatly reduced the need for pain medication. My husbands therapist told him he was done with therapy about a month sooner than was expected. She was surprised at how fast he advanced through the agenda. We told her it was because of his PEMF device. She did not seem to be interested in learning more, so typical of many working in the medical profession.
Other things to consider while waiting for surgery: Try not to take NSAID’s. In our experience there are natural options that are just as effective. Collagen, fish oil, boswellia, serrapeptase, NAG, are just a few. We personally avoid curcumin because there have been reported instances of it being hard on the liver and it is high in oxalates, that can be hard on the kidneys, and may cause kidney stones. We want to avoid side effects and even natural supplements can have them. I have read recent research that a lot of times knee pain is actually cause by a hip problem. Coincidentally, a friend of mine had a knee replacement last summer. Within a few months she had so much hip pain that she had her hip replaced only 4 months after her knee replacement.