No Problem With Your Knees - Page 3

terrier3 · ‎03-10-2010

This post is laughable...

gazelle77 · ‎03-01-2013

On 7/18/2014 vabreeze said:
On 7/18/2014 gazelle77 said:
On 7/18/2014 vabreeze said:
On 6/17/2014 gazelle77 said: Yes, I was very bow legged due to severe OA in both knees. It took total knee replacement to correct my knees. No shoe will do that. Now I have nice straight legs... Very happy!
gazelle77, did you find you were taller after your knee replacement surgery? I have a gf who did gain inches in height after her surgery. I guess it depends on the degree the legs were bowed-- she was very bow-legged.

I was very bowed, and yes, I did notice when I got home especially from hospital that when I opened the fridge I was viewing contents from a taller height!... LOL!. It may be only an inch... but it makes all the difference.

I was SO EMBARRASSED about my bowed legs for years... bought only certain wide leg pants to try to hide the disfigurement.... I would cry looking in the mirror... and people believe it or not would make comments about my bowed legs.. things like DID YOU RIDE HORSES AS A CHILD... I would many times at work go into the bathroom and cry. Some people would say it was cute.... so so not true! Painful figuratively as well as physically.... and horrible to live with especially as a woman. Now I am not only pain free from my arthritis, my legs are straight and I put on tighter pants and look proudly in the mirror. No one would ever even give thanks to straight legs until they experience being either bowed out or knock kneed from arthritis. I give thanks everyday when I look at my legs now!

Before me gf's surgery, she walked very slowly/poorly with a sideways rocking gait and needed to hold on tightly to railings if steps were the only way of getting up or down an area-- same problem as you, OA. She walks perfectly fine now. She constantly says how happy she is with her new knees!

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gazelle77 · ‎03-01-2013

On 7/18/2014 terrier3 said:
This post is laughable...

not if you are in pain....

terrier3 · ‎03-10-2010

On 7/18/2014 gazelle77 said:
On 7/18/2014 terrier3 said:
This post is laughable...

not if you are in pain.... ${#emotions_dlg.sneaky}$

Blaming it on a SHOE.

I fell flat on the sidewalk when I was wearing clogs. Needed stitches and dental work too.

I'm a klutz - I would never blame the freakin' SHOE!

People will sue over anything, I guess.

Nightowlz · ‎03-11-2010

I'm not bow-legged & had no problems with my legs/knees until I started wearing Vionic/Othaheel. IMO the arch in them is too high. Maybe I don't have a problem with pronation as I thought I did. I'm back to wearing other sandals including Birkenstock, fly flot etc & all better now. One pair of Orthaheel I bought the arch was higher in one sandal then the other so that is a problem. I bought another pair of those now I cannot wear them. I don't think the arch in them is consistent. When I first started wearing them I really liked them. The longer I wore them the more pain I had in my knees. Some of the models they show are bow-legged. Wonder if they wear them?