Knee Replacement

Driving means independence for many people, especially those who are recovering from a stroke or major surgery. The West View Rehabilitation Center in Williamsport is teaching its patients to get back into the car and, hopefully, back on the road....

Andrew Fabella, are you out there? Please report to post-op at Keck Hospital of USC early Monday morning. I'm coming back to have the other knee done. That's right, folks, I'm kicking off the new year by getting a partial right knee replacement...

In August 2001, Dick Butkus was approached with a deal. If he would record a radio advertisement, he would be given an EBCT heart scan. The scan normally would have cost about $15,000 and insurance didn't cover it. "What the hell," Butkus said. "I hadn'...

It's an award that any NFL player would be proud of, but none would choose to endure. Comeback player of the year. The field is especially crowded this season, with an inordinate number of standout players returning from season-ending injuries, the...

We hear about players playing hurt, but as Mike D'Antoni walks down the hallway for his first pregame media briefing as Lakers head coach, I'm telling him he looks like a wreck. And he's not disagreeing, pulling a coat around himself because, as he...

As I begin this column, it is Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 22. I have been alive 20,873 days, if my math is correct, and I hope to add to the tally. But the knees I was born with will not be joining me for the rest of the trip. The clock ticks. The surgeon...

Wearing a black pencil skirt revealing a 10-inch scar that goes through her knee Lorri Winter walks across the room with swagger showing what she playfully calls her "America's Next Top Model" walk. Three months following knee replacement surgery swagger...

Caregivers and seniors Family and Children's Services of Central Maryland has recently received an 18-month, $500,000 challenge grant from the Maryland Home and Community Care Foundation and additional funding from the Howard County Department of Citizen...

Look good, feel better The free program teaches beauty techniques to women with cancer to help them combat appearance-related side effects of treatment. Participants receive a bag of cosmetics donated by major manufacturers as well as instruction and...

Things couldn’t have looked much worse for Chelsea Gill when she fell to the field in the very first game of the season, but they couldn’t have turned out much better. There would be surgery and rehab after Gill suffered the same injury for...

COSTA MESA — While their coach ditched his prescribed crutches soon after kickoff, Estancia High freshman football players had their legs under them for four quarters on Thursday against visiting Costa Mesa. The Eagles scored on their first...

Edward Vincent was a year away from making history in 1983 as Inglewood's first black mayor when he heard a woman screaming on a city street that her purse had been snatched and decided "to practice what I've been preaching." At the time, he was a city...