Peter Attia· MD
so I see many patients who are in need purgatory I call it who aren't ready for joint replacement who don't have a bad enough well aren't at that twenty to thirty percent point of dysfunction that they would benefit from a knee replacement if they're sort of sixty percent functional and you give them a knee replacement there's seventy percent functional they're not typically happy with that because they have to go through hell to get it so in that knee purgatory sort of sixty to seventy percent functional where we don't have a lot of options it really is the emphasis on treatment and management is on coping