06/07/2026
80–90% of TKR patients do great.
But scroll through my content and you’d never know that.
I’ve spent a lot of time talking about complications. Painful outcomes. The 10–20% who struggle. And I don’t regret it — those patients deserve a voice, and you deserve to go in with both eyes open.
But recently I’ve been reflecting on something.
Am I scaring people away from a surgery that could genuinely change their life?
The data is clear: the majority of knee replacement patients get their life back. They walk without pain. They sleep through the night.
They travel, exercise, and do the things they stopped doing years ago.
The hard cases are real. I’ll never stop talking about them.
But so is this: most people who do the work — who prepare, who rehab, who show up — they come out the other side glad they did it.
If you’ve been putting off this conversation because of something you saw on my page, I want you to know: that wasn’t the whole story.
This is. 👇
