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Dear Doctor: I’d like to avoid surgery for my knee osteoarthritis. Are there alternate treatments?
Dear Doctor: I’d like to avoid surgery for my knee osteoarthritis. Are there alternate treatments?
Dear Doctor: I’d like to avoid surgery for my knee osteoarthritis. Are there alternate treatments?

Published on: 05/21/2026

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Dr. Keith Roach is a physician at Weill Cornell Medical College. He writes an educational column on infectious diseases, public health and sports medicine.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m 77, and I was diagnosed with osteoarthritis in my right knee, which is almost bone-on-bone on one side. (I guess this is from a lot of sports over the years.) Anyway, I’ve seen a specialist who gave me a steroid injection with a local anesthetic. He said that people usually do this a few times (at least three months apart), then get a knee replacement.

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