Good Bones

Sweet knees or burly ones?

by Sally Mitani

posted 7/30/2010

Housecleaning can be tough on your knees, as a local homeowner was reminded when she overheard her cleaning woman on her cell phone, discussing an upcoming knee replacement procedure. "I wanted one of those feminine knees," the woman declared, "not some big honkin' masculine knee."

Can you really choose your own knee, the way you choose your schnoz when you have a nose job? Not exactly, says Robert Young, an orthopedic surgeon at St. Joe's specializing in knee replacements.

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