"Knee Surgery

Earlier this year, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study on a knee scooping surgery for arthritis that exposes how 3 billion dollars a year is being wasted on this procedure, which relieves the problem no more than a placebo.

The operation, known as arthroscopic surgery, for pain and stiffness caused by osteoarthritis is performed on about 650,000 people in the U.S. every year, at a cost of about $5,000 per procedure.

As mentioned above, studies show that placebos had the same affect as the surgery, and placebos are a lot cheaper than $5,000 operations.

So what other options are there?"
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2002/11/23/needless-surgeries.aspx

" Fortunately there is an answer.

NST is a light form of massage that is the most amazing form of therapy I have ever seen. It is not unusual for a two minute NST session to relieve years of chronic knee pain. We have prevented knee and shoulder surgeries on many dozens of patients with NST."

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/08/22/jogging-part-two.aspx

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2006/01/14/pain-relief-without-meds----80-percent-success-rate.aspx
(I would put my money here)