Sports medicine surgery has a smaller margin for functional improvement and higher risk of dissatisfaction than joint replacement. — Whalespan
Sports medicine surgery has a smaller margin for functional improvement and higher risk of dissatisfaction than joint replacement.
⚠ High risk
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“I mean you could do everything except swim and do push-ups but you could everything else in your life without pain and you're taking someone who's 80 to 85 percent functional you're working with a very small margin and so it's a harder it's harder to get the satisfaction that you can get there's just there's so much more downside than upside”