Bridget Nielsen, holding up her sculling ores at Tempe Town Lake, is back doing activities she loves thanks to The CORE Institute.
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Water Banner CORE Center for Orthopedics relieves patient’s crippling pain By Kristine Burnet
WHEN BRIDGET NIELSEN WALKED INTO HER PEDIATRICIAN’S OFFICE AT AGE 10, HER doctor made a seemingly unbelievable declaration. Based on the condition of her knees, he predicted she would be in a wheelchair by the age of 50. Now 44, Nielsen is well on her way to proving him wrong thanks to the medical expertise of a surgeon at The CORE Institute. “When I was young, there was this audible grinding sound in my knees that people could hear when I would squat or go up and down stairs,” Nielsen said. “It didn’t hurt, but my mom took me to the doctor to see what it was. He thought it might have been juvenile arthritis, but we later discovered that my kneecaps had never tracked correctly.”
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