The Rooster
"Okeydoke"
April 21, 2016
By Charlotte Ames
Knee and joint pain (click here) affects one hundred million Americans. Now patients can choose from many different treatment options. Here are details on how fluid from a rooster can get the joints moving again.
Bob Justiana is in full swing now, but just a few months ago he could barely putt along. “I would hear bone to bone contact, clicks in my knees and tremendous strain,” he said.
So Bob tried ultrasound-guided injections of hyaluronic acid, a substance that comes from an unlikely source, a rooster. Bob said, “I took the chance and went for it.”
Nurse practitioner Evelyn Kikta from the Tarpon Spine and Medical Center said humans also make the hyaluronic acid.
“By putting this hyaluronic acid from the comb of the chicken, of the rooster, it stimulates the production of your own,” Kikta said.
