Science: Health: Artificial Joints
new knees, hips   (+2, -3)  [vote for, against]
Old knees, hips are inferior

Get hip/knee replacement surgery while you're still healthy and can recover from all that surgery. Maybe even have them all done at once!
-- dean, Jan 06 2000

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[us, Jan 11 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]

Why not replace the entire endoskeleton with a carbonfiber composite endo/exo skeletal hybrid? I suppose you'd have to wait until you were fully grown, and the attractiveness of the idea had waned somewhat.
-- jimfl, Jan 06 2000


Surely the lifetimes of these things will get longer. It becomes an optimization problem. I would say that soon after your present parts become too inferior to the spare parts, but before you are so old that recovery from surgery will be problematic, would be a good time.
-- dean, Feb 02 2000


Within 30-50 years we'll be regenerating duplicate organs to replace your worn out ones. No more titaninum/teflon joints but your own flesh and blood.
-- bromide, Feb 09 2000


Even still, bromide, it would make sense to undergo "freshening" before the shock to your system would make it too difficult to undergo surgery.
-- centauri, Jan 16 2001


*Takes notes for blackmail purposes*
-- thumbwax, Jan 11 2002


<laughing at thought> Peter going around intoning in a daleky voice "baked" "baked" "baked" "baked"
-- po, Jan 11 2002


is that how the petersealybot was born?
-- mihali, Jan 11 2002


It only does "no new windows".
-- mwburden, Jan 11 2002


(Laughs at the image of [PeterSealy] ever having been a kid)
-- phoenix, Jan 11 2002


baked - see: Matt Hoffman
-- chud, Mar 15 2002


Matt Hoffman had all his bones replaced by titanium replacement bones? Creepy. No wonder he recovers from crashing his BMX so fast.
-- croissantz, Aug 22 2004



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