{"id":2017,"date":"2016-04-27T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:29:16","slug":"sore-knee-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2017","title":{"rendered":"Sore knee update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted about this back here. <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2016\/03\/annoying-a-knee-issue-.html\">Annoying: A knee issue <\/a>. The issue was originally a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baker&#39;s_cyst\">Baker&#39;s Cyst<\/a> but the underlying problem (and it&#39;s been for several years) is arthritis in the inner aspect of my left knee.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday I had the first of four shots of this stuff&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/osteoarthritis\/osteoarthritis-of-the-knee-hyaluronic-acid-joint-injections\">What Are Hyaluronic Acid Joint Injections?<\/a>&#0160; for the arthritis&#0160; &#8211; &quot;bone on bone&quot; &#8211; which Dr. Weinstein (same guy who<a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2011\/10\/tims-knee-surgery-went-well-.html\"> repaired Tim&#39;s knee<\/a> four years ago) tells me is effective for 85% of people. Relieves symptoms for about six months. I&#39;m going to have three more injections, probably every Monday for next three weeks. Essentially a lubricant for the joint.<\/p>\n<p>He told me it usually is several injections before you feel the difference, but unless it&#39;s all in my mind, my knee feels better already. Which is good. Be interesting to see how it will feel Saturday, as I&#39;m hiking up Sugarloaf Mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted about this back here. Annoying: A knee issue . The issue was originally a Baker&#39;s Cyst but the underlying problem (and it&#39;s been for several years) is arthritis in the inner aspect of my left knee. On Monday I had the first of four shots of this stuff&#0160;What Are Hyaluronic Acid Joint Injections?&#0160; for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8052,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions\/8052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}