sábado, 19 de octubre de 2019

A new treatment for knee arthritis

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A new treatment for knee arthritis

The TV ad promises pain relief for knee osteoarthritis, the source of most of the 600,000 knee replacement surgeries in the US each year. A man in a bowling alley winces with pain. “Knee acting up again?” asks his buddy, clearly concerned. When pain pills don’t seem to help, his buddy suggests a procedure called Coolief for knee osteoarthritis.
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