Patient Testimonials
"In 1999, I was 57 years old and desperately in need of relief from the arthritic pain in my knees. It had been 35 years since the original football injury which ended my Big Ten Football career and I now thought it was putting me on the sidelines for good. At 57, after three other corrective knee surgeries, I was only good for less than an hour of physical activity per day before I had to sit down, ice and rest my knees.
In my early 50"s I was able to jog daily, play racquet ball three times per week, play lots of tennis and ski each Winter. By the time I was 55 I began looking for a surgeon who could give me some relief but couldn"t find one willing to do replacement surgery. What was worse, most of the doctors turned me down because that I was too young. They said that I would only wear out the prosthesis too soon, so I needed to wait until I was older to have the surgery ! I didn"t want to wait !
Then in 1999, I met with Dr. Wyard and he surgically replaced both of my knees (one in May and the other in October) and by December of that year I was able to snow shoe. In January 2000, I was finally back on the tennis courts while on vacation in Florida. I even tried going back to down-hill skiing after the next winter, but figured that wasn"t too smart, so now I settle on cross country skiing and snow shoeing each winter.
Now it is February of 2008 (almost nine years since my original replacement surgery) and my original knee replacements are still going strong. I"ve just returned from Florida where I"ve been playing tennis (3 hrs/per day) since last October 2007. And, of course, with all the snow in Minnesota I"ve been out snow shoeing twice this week since I"ve been back.
If you are thinking about knee replacement surgery, don"t wait! Dr. Wyard is as good as they get. In fact, when people ask me if I"d do it all over again, all I can say is yes! I think about all the fun that I would have missed had I not. So, heck yes, it was a no brainer."
Clinic: Waconia - OC
