An IAA member commented that covid has made her AF knee more painful. The knee is settling down now and is expected to make a full return to pre-covid function, but it's a reminder that respiratory infections like covid cause systemic inflammation that affects knees. The impact of respiratory infections can be more damaging in the months following an operation when the body is in an active healing phase and trying to resolve inflammation, so this is a good time to take precautions.
Kayley
Thanks for the warning. My rheumatologist is excellent, a good thinker and very kind. She’s my favorite doctor. She isn’t a specialist in arthrofibrosis, like the doctor that works with Dr. Noyes in Cincinnati though. Her name is Kinga Vereczkey and she works in Pittsboro, NC.