Merle Haggard Quotes

I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful.

I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.

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

I had reconstructive pectoral surgery, I had a cervical neck fusion and a scope, and the scope was the toughest.

At one stage I was using crutches on stage and couldn't walk more than 20 yards but a hip replacement in 2010 sorted that out.

Stryker was a company that allowed me, when I had my knee replaced and I got the Stryker GetAroundKnee put in, to get my career back and get my life back.

No, I had a back injury early on in my life.

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.

My job as a surgeon is not just to fix a joint, but to give my patients the encouragement and tools they need to speed up their recovery and leave my clinic better than they have been in years.

I do have six anchors put in my labrum; I tore it in half, so it was pretty major surgery.

I'm just trying to avoid any future surgery. I'm just trying to stand up straighter. And the hip and back are better.

I've had, like, 10 surgeries in my life: four or so on my knee, my hip and my nose a couple of times.

By 2012, I probably had, like, three stress reactions in my back. Two stress fractures in my fibula.

I'm not trying to have no surgeries because I'm trying to impress somebody and I end up hurting or tearing my labrum or rotator cuff.

I don't know how well-known it is, but I had back surgery in '07, and it took about two years to recover.

I've had surgery on my knee and both feet and my elbow.

I had hip surgery in America because I'd had problems during my last two years in Europe. They said out there that my hip was broken and I didn't know about it.

Over the years, I've hurt my thumb, separated my shoulder, and injured my back, but not too bad. Actually, my back was hurt pretty bad. I had to take an ambulance and was in bed for a week.

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.

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.

On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I've had both knees reconstructed.

Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse.

I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September.