Knee & Hip Replacement Hats

About a million people in the US get a new joint every year, roughly 719,000 total knee replacements and 332,000 total hip replacements by AAOS registry figures, and around 7 million Americans are already walking on one. The recovery has its own vocabulary: TKR and THR, the walker and then the cane, weeks of PT, the scar. So does the airport. Fewer than half of modern knee replacements set off a metal detector, and the patients whose joints do learn the full body scanner and the wand by heart. This collection is for the patient, and for the kids and spouses buying a get-well gift that is funnier than a card. Two club badges name the joint plainly, KNEE REPLACEMENT CLUB and HIP REPLACEMENT CLUB. NEW KNEE WHO DIS is the caller-ID joke that every list of knee replacement jokes gets around to. MAKE MY KNEE GREAT AGAIN and REAL KNEES ARE SO LAST YEAR are phrases the market already sells, BIONIC GRANDMA gives a grandmother her superhero billing, and ONE HIP CHICK WITH ONE NEW HIP gives the hip side its own pun. PART TITANIUM I SET OFF METAL DETECTORS is for the ones who do get wanded, and MY KNEE IS NEWER THAN MY CAR is a flex about the one thing in the driveway that is genuinely newer. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. NEW KNEE WHO DIS and PART TITANIUM I SET OFF METAL DETECTORS each come in a second colorway.