Stiff knee? Arthritis? Get a surgeon to open you up and wrap the joints in cellophane. That is just what they're doing at California's Long Beach Naval Hospital. A surgeon there, Lieut. Commander Duncan Clark McKeever, reported last week that he had loosened up some 20 stiff joints with cellophane surgery.
One treatment for arthritic knees is to remove the lining of the knee joints. But scar tissue that forms afterwards usually makes the joint surfaces stick together, causing stiffness that is often only partly relaxed by a slow, painful course of exercises. Surgeon...
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