After a year of pain and his right knee ‘locking’, keen club runner Tom Hooper, 43, happily agreed to surgery thinking it would mean an end to the problem.
Nine months after the operation, however, he was still in pain and needed steroid injections and intensive physiotherapy.
Three months after that, the pain thankfully has gone, but his knee remains inflexible – he can’t straighten it or move it easily. Yet he remains optimistic he will get back to full fitness.
But is Tom’s confidence misplaced?
Controversial new research from Finland recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that the knee
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