The Perfect Bilateral Knee Replacement
an interview with Larry Meservey (NH)






I grew up doing high school sports, football, wrestling. I took it to the extreme and suffered a lot of injuries during that time. Nothing crippling, but I kind of overdid it. As I got into my work career, we started in the power sports industry. My father and I owned a Marina and, unfortunately, we didn't have all the power equipment. I just used and abused my body in ways that would never be thought of today. For quite a period of time I worked with Polaris industries maintaining their demo fleet of motorcycles and their press fleet.
I spent a lot of time on my knees. I think just over time I wore them out. Ten years ago, I knew I was in trouble. I just kept putting it off and things just kept getting worse.













My Knees Just Kept Getting Worse
I realized one day I was bow-legged. The pain was excruciating. I got to the point I couldn't do stairs anymore. It was crippling my life. It was holding me back from all the things that I wanted to do. I'm an avid snowmobiler. We ride ATVs and motorcycles and I'm a car nut. I like to build and crawl around my cars. I got to the point I just couldn't do it anymore. I almost needed somebody to help me up off the ground because my knees hurt so bad. I live in Northern New Hampshire and I went to a place called The Alpine Clinic there at the base of Canon's Ski Mountain. They do a lot of the orthopedics for the Olympic athletes.






I went through the x-rays and so forth. And the doctor came in and said, “Well, I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we can help. The bad news is both of your knees are, are bone-on-bone, you have a lot of arthritis, and you need to have both of your knees replaced.”
It was my wife who suggested the bilateral. She said, "Well doctor, can you do them both at once? Cause I think I know my husband pretty good and if you do one you'll probably never be back from the second one." That's what got me there. That's what put me in the doctor's office. And, and that's what brought up the conversation a bilateral with Dr. Douglas McArthur.






Talking Me Out of The Perfect Bilateral Knee Replacement
He tried everything he could to talk me out of it. I was very insistent. I told him, “If we're going to do this, I want to do them both.” So then he asked me a little bit about my background and my house. I'm in my mid-sixties, I take no prescription medicines and overall my health conditions are good. He really couldn't find a reason why not to do both of them at the same time and agreed to do so.
I had talked with PJ at X10 Therapy and discussed pre-hab. That's when I said, “Well, can I get this thing in advance?” We agreed for me to get the machine more than a week before the surgery One of the goals is range-of-motion after surgery and they talk about 0º to 130º being the ultimate goal. I don't think I was 0º to 130º before getting the X10. But when I went for my surgery, I was 0º to 130º range of motion on both knees.













As I mentioned I was very bowlegged. Over time, my knees had just kind of unstructured themselves and I was concerned about that and. I put a lot of pressure on a doctor to make sure my legs were straight when we're done. Today I can tell you my legs are perfectly straight. They work perfectly, and my range of motion is phenomenal. Currently, at nine weeks, I've got 0º to 132º in my left knee on my own. And with assistance,