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“Water aerobics healed my pain!”

Debilitati­ng knee pain left Darlene Brooks Thomas, 60, feeling like she was missing out on life. Then she discovered the fun fix that changed everything!

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Darlene Brooks Thomas woke up in her hotel room, happy and ready to return home after a fun weekend with her girlfriend­s. As she stepped out of bed, her left knee buckled and her leg felt like a cooked noodle, completely unable to support her. She fell to the floor.

As she lay on the carpet, she thought about the replacemen­t surgery she’d had on her other knee three years prior, and her long, drawn-out recovery. Doctors had said she’d likely have to get the second knee replaced, and Darlene felt panic rising as she realized that time may have come. I can’t go through that again, she thought. I’ve got to do something.

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Darlene Brooks Thomas, Morada, CA

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