Re: total knee replacement pblms?

Michael Strain (strain@mango.uoregon.edu)
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 13:04:59 -0700 (PDT)

On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Ralph M. Deal wrote:

> I will be contacting Johnson and Johnson for detailed specs on all the
> materials in the replacement but guess that this is not a new problem. I
> suppose that one could restrain one's knee from jumping to the
> magnet, threatening both joint and magnet, but if there are magnetic
> materials therein, the resulting magnetized knee might not work well.
> (would I know which way was North - a homing person?)
>
> Thanks for sharing, Ralph M. Deal, Chem Dept. Kalamazoo College,
> Kalamazoo, MI 49006 deal@kzoo.edu

Just watch out for those knee-jerk responses ;-)

--Mike

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