A 65-year-old woman in South Korea went to doctors because of severe knee pain caused by osteoarthritis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But when doctors examined her knees, they discovered something completely unexpected: dozens of tiny gold needles embedded in the tissue around her joints.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The woman had turned to acupuncture after painkillers and anti-inflammatory medications failed to provide enough relief\u2014and reportedly caused stomach problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The needles, believed to be made of gold, had been intentionally left inside her knees as part of an alternative treatment meant to provide ongoing stimulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But doctors warn that leaving foreign objects inside the body can cause serious complications, including inflammation, infection and abscesses<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There was another concern too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because the needles remained inside her body, they could interfere with medical imaging. Doctors warned that patients with embedded metal needles may also face risks during an MRI<\/strong>, because certain metals can potentially move inside the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gold may sound valuable\u2014but doctors say finding it inside your knees is definitely not the kind of treasure you want to discover.<\/strong> \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n\n\n\n The unusual case has left many people wondering: How did all those tiny needles end up inside her knees in the first place?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 65-year-old woman in South Korea went to doctors because of severe knee pain caused by osteoarthritis. But when doctors examined her knees, they discovered something completely unexpected: dozens of tiny gold needles embedded in the tissue around her joints. The woman had turned to acupuncture after painkillers and anti-inflammatory medications failed to provide enough …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18783,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18781\/revisions\/18783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}