“I'd be sitting in my recliner and my knee would pop and my wife would have to come over and grab my foot and pull my leg again and pop it back into place.”

Michael Thiffault remembered the first time he dislocated his knee. He and his wife, Sandra, were visiting family. “I was sitting at the dining room table and I just, I had to slide my chair back and kind of pick it up,” he says. “And when I did, I turned to the left and my right knee popped and my leg went numb from the knee down."

That night it got worse. “When I got into bed, it happened again,” he said. “And this time it was excruciating, I was in tears. I was screaming and yelling and my wife was there and she's like, ‘What do I do? What do I do?’ And I was like, ‘Grab my foot and pull on it.'"

“My first thought was to go to th

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