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Message: [QUOTE="Twolf, post: 3910621, member: 8437"] I had 1 knee replaced in 2016- college basketball injuries led to a ton of osteoarthritis. You will know when the time is right, when you have no quality of life due to pain. My surgeon told me he wasn’t a salesman, and to let him know when the time was right. I felt fortunate to have a great surgeon & a great PT who happened to be an ex player who I coached. They told me they were going to pay me back for the pain they felt during boot camp conditioning drills. Kidding aside your PT and your commitment to getting flexibility back is the key to success. Knee replacement is one of those things that will make you swear like a mule skinner for 6 weeks at physical therapy, and after 3 or 4 months you’ll ask yourself why you didn’t do it sooner. Running won’t be much of an option unless there’s a fire, and you don’t want want an impact straight legged like jumping down from a pickup bed, but getting rid of the pain & being able to perform day to day activities without thinking how hard it will be to go to sleep that night due to extreme discomfort is worth it. Still coaching at retirement age w/o pain, unless I slip and think I’m 30 again demonstrating something during practice. For me it was well worth the temporary pain, because the pre surgery pain was never going away, and I don’t even think about having an artificial knee until I see the X-ray @ yearly checkups. Hope this helps [/QUOTE]