An active woman likely won't need to worry about wearing out a component in an orthopaedic implant.
Durasul in The News
By Caren Benjamin
Las Vegas Review-Journal
September
27, 1999
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Maybe it was the teen-age nights spent roller skating. Or it could have been the decades as a custodian cleaning up after schoolchildren or even an old, forgotten injury from seasons of softball. Whatever the cause, by the time she hit her early 70s, Manchie's hip was literally worn away. The pain became unbearable. "I went from a cane to a walker to a wheelchair," she remembered. Now, thanks to hip replacement surgery, she carries the cane more for security than for actual need. She takes 45-minute walks five mornings a week with not even a limp to show for her history.
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