If You Tear a Knee Ligament, Arthritis Is Likely to Follow in 10 Years (both are related to low Vitamin D)

If You Tear a Knee Ligament, Arthritis Is Likely to Follow in 10 Years New York Times Nov 2017

• “In 2004, there were about 500 A.C.L. operations at those hospitals; in 2014, there were more than 2,500, he reports.” 5X increase in ACL
  • Doubt that there was a 5X increase in people playing soccer/football

• ". . .10 to 15 years after A.C.L. surgery. Seventy-four percent developed arthritis that could be seen on X-rays"

• ". . . chance of getting arthritis within a decade of tearing a tendon or a ligament in the knee is greater than 50 percent"

• " . . .up to 40 percent of those who dislocate a shoulder get arthritis within about 15 years"

See also VitaminDWiki

• ACL knee problems assocated with low Vitamin D - several studies

• Teenage knee injury 4X increase in last decade in Philadelphia – Oct 2011

  • Lower vitamin D => slower muscle response => knee injury

• Knee osteoarthritis treated with vitamin D, weekly 50,000 IU – May 2015

• Probability of knee osteoarthritis up 50 percent if 20 ng less vitamin D – Nov 2011

• I needed more than Vitamin D to treat my knee osteoarthritis

• Reduced knee osteoarthritis if consistently supplement with vitamin D for 2 years – April 2017