Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes

I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

I replaced three joints in my hips and one in my knee. I'm hoping that other knee doesn't have to be done. It's one of the toughest things to overcome.

If I'm going to have to deal, as I get older, with arthritic pain, I don't want to get into opiates.

My back has been compressed and operated on, my feet have been surgically cut up, and I have a knee that's just going wacky. So I do my own driving, and I ski and skate. I'm playing hockey again. Anything that immobilizes my feet I'm OK with.

I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

At 49, I find it a little bit difficult to run these days. I've got grade four tears in both Achilles, shin splints, I got no cartilage the toes in my right foot, I've got bone marrow edemas under both knees, I've got one degenerating hip - that's the problem you get.

I feel my knees changing - like, why do I have this pain when I'm running on the treadmill? What's going on with my lower back when I wake up in the morning? I just feel changes. And I'm definitely fearful in a very vain manner about my body ageing.

I don't think people understand what microfracture surgery is. It's pretty serious. A lot of basketball players get it in their knees, and if they do bounce back, it takes a while.

I blew one of my knees. I've torn ligaments and tendons, ankles, both shoulders, both wrists.

I am not crazy about my knees.

All my football injuries now have arthritis in them.

I've paid the price over the years, though: a lot of injuries and surgeries related to my sports career; my hips and knees took a lot of wear and tear.

As a lad I missed five months of sporting activity to OSD. It used to wake me up at night with pain in my knees.

The wife and the kids provide my exercise, but I have to be careful because I have rheumatoid arthritis all over my body.

Sports men and women need hip replacements. It was all those years of classical ballet and forcing turn-outs. It can be quite detrimental to your body.

My knee is screwed. I had the meniscus cut out.

My problem is that I have no cartilage or tendons. My 86 kilos are supported by bones alone. That's what generated the pain.

I've had several joint surgeries just to get floating bone chips and different things removed.

I'd just like to be able to walk without pain or run without a limp.

I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.

I tore my ACL playing basketball.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

In France, a hip replacement was captured using two GoPros in a stereoscopic 3D arrangement. Students can watch the surgery using a virtual reality headset.

I've had three broken legs and two knee replacements. But I'm very good at apres golf.