Clinical Resource: Success Story: Shannon Hicks

I noticed over the last several years I was  getting a little bit of knee pain and thought, well I’m just getting older. Four years ago I  took a trip to Europe and had to stop every 10 minutes and I just thought to myself I’ve got  to do something. There’s there’s no way I can live like this. By that September it got to  be really bad, so I went to my primary care physician and she recommended Dr. Barnes at UAMS,  who was amazing. He listened, he answered all my questions. I felt so comfortable with him. He said  I can’t tell you whether or not to have surgery he said here is what your x-rays look like, but the  pain will tell you when it’s time. When everybody said UAMS was the best and since it’s a teaching  institution I was very comfortable with that because that’s where the best and most innovative  things happen and I wanted the best and most innovative needs and so I wanted the best and most  innovative surgeon and care team. Once I met with Dr. Barnes and his team it was a no-brainer and it actually made me bring all of my doctors over to UAMS. My surgery was really great, my physical  therapy was amazing, so shout out to Colonel Glenn Physical Therapy. They helped me get through this  I had so much fun that I did it a second time 6 months later. That was 2 years ago and now I’ve  got my life back and it’s just amazing. I can’t say enough about UAMS. It was the perfect place  to go. I felt cared for, I felt listened to and I was very very confident that I would be able to do  what I needed to do to get my life back and I did