Living with osteoarthritis: ‘My double knee replacement surgery was a game changer’
Former junior Leinster rugby player Pat Slater suffered with his knees for over 20 years before undergoing knee replacement surgery
Filomena Kaguako
When former junior Leinster rugby player Pat Slater cut his teeth on the contact sport, he did not anticipate how a knee injury in his early 30s would seal his fate. “I never had a problem with the knee,” he says. “I never had a problem with any joints until I got injured in a rugby match down in Kilkenny.”
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