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‘A quiet epidemic’: Why so many Canadians experience knee pain

"Knee pain is one of the most common presenting symptoms in musculoskeletal, sports medicine and chronic pain clinics across the country." Dr. Paul Wong, chief of orthopaedics at Michael Garron Hospital in Toronto, told Global News that knee complications in Canada are becoming a “quiet epidemic.”
“What we see in the practice is that arthritic problems keep growing higher and higher each year… much higher than what we expected.”
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