Illinois Healthy Women

A Midwestern woman's plain account of arthritic knees, weak bones, and the joint surgery she stopped putting off.
Women's joint and bone health, from the first ache to a new knee.

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Questions, corrections, and feedback about what we publish are all welcome on this page.

Email

For general enquiries and corrections: [email protected]

Expect a reply within a few business days. What sits outside our reach is your own case: we cannot interpret an X-ray or a scan for you, sift through your particular history, or pronounce on whether surgery is warranted or which kind of replacement your knee would take. That is ground for your own doctor or orthopaedic team, who can examine you in person and read the joint for what it is.

For that reason, hold back any photographs of your knee or a wound, any scans, and particulars such as the date of an operation or your medical history. We have no way to use them, and an email inbox is neither the secure nor the fitting home for information of that kind.

Sharing your experience

If you are a woman who has been through knee osteoarthritis, the drawn-out decision about surgery, or recovery from a replacement, your story is worth a great deal to us. What readers tell us shapes our sense of which questions matter most, even if we cannot always write back to each person.

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