After injuring his knee while skiing in 1968,
golfer Jay Litty went through three operations to remove
cartilage and seven arthroscopies to "clean out" bone chips
and scar tissue. By the mid '90s, he was lucky to be walking
- his knee was "totally gone."
Even when he lost use of his left leg, and could barely get
in and out of a car, Jay postponed implant surgery for
another three years. "I never was sure about it," he says.
"If I'd have known the benefits, I would have done it a long
time ago. My quality of life has changed so dramatically."
In fact, Jay's recovery has been so spectacular, his surgeon
calls him his "poster child patient." Three days after he
received his Stryker Orthopaedics Duracon® knee
he walked himself down two flights of stairs to
rehabilitation. Three intensive days later, he went home.
Four weeks of long hours in outpatient rehab prepared him to
hit golf balls again. On day 66, he played an 18-hole game
without a cart; 30 days later he won a member/member,
36-hole tournament with his surgeon, Dr. Mark Powers, as his
partner. Jay, who had continued to play daily with a swing
that bypassed his left leg, is thrilled to get his old game
back. "I tell friends who have bad knees that waiting is not
the answer," he says. "Waiting sends your quality of life
backwards. I want to go forward."
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