In a previous blog, I discussed the issue of anticoagulation therapy (blood thinning) after total hip and knee replacement. The ultimate goal of all of our efforts to thin a patient's blood after join ...

Approximately 90% of people who undergo a total hip or knee replacement have a satisfactory outcome. Approximately 10% of patients will not be satisfied with their outcome. This 10% is composed of pat ...

A recent edition of U.S. News and World Report (July 23, 2007) came out with their annual rankings of best hospitals. In this issue, they also had information regarding hip and knee replacement. This ...

In the June 25, 2007 US News and World Report magazine, a section on injury-free workouts and other exercise tips for middle age and older individuals was presented. This stressed the importance of ex ...

Many people are faced with the situation of having significant pain from arthritis in both of their knees. When conservative measures such as modification of activity, oral anti-inflammatory medicatio ...

As I have mentioned in previous blogs, the way that we manage pain has changed significantly over the last five years. We have utilized a combination of different components to come up with our curren ...

Surgeons at the Valley Medical Center's Center for Joint Replacement performed 772 total joint replacements in 2006. This was a 20% increase over the number of cases performed in 2005. Of these, 468 o ...

There has been continued interest in computer-assisted knee replacement. Recent studies, including one performed at our institution, have confirmed the safety of computer-assisted knee replacement. Th ...

When a patient presents with endstage osteoarthritis of the hip, has pain that matches the radiographic changes, and has reached a point where they feel that something needs to be done, we discuss sev ...

Typically when you visited an orthopedic surgeon in the past, x-rays were obtained by a machine that projected energy onto a film which was then developed and a picture obtained. More recently, new de ...