The number of knee replacements is predicted to increase sevenfold over the next 15 years. The most rapidly growing age segment is the patient from 45 to 64 years of age. This has gone from 30% of tot ...

After you have exhausted symptomatic treatment and your pain is increasing and your function is decreasing, ultimately you may decide to undergo a joint replacement operation for your hip or knee.  Yo ...

You have done all you can to improve your health and maximize your outcome and the day has finally arrived.  You check into the hospital, meet the anesthesiologist, discuss the different options for a ...

As I have stated in previous blogs, osteoarthritis is a spectrum of disorders that range from mild symptoms, such as aching and swelling after activity to disabling pain which significantly impacts yo ...

Recently (February 24 and 25 of 2012), I moderated a course in Las Vegas, Nevada regarding anterior approach total hip replacement.  The faculty, including Dr. Joel Matta, an early adapter of the ante ...

In a supplement on December 21, 2011 Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, a gathering of joint registries from around the world concluded that the importance of joint registries in finding early differe ...

As we start a new year, we look forward to new opportunities to better serve our patients at the Joint Center.  Making our patient/customer satisfaction our highest priority, we continue to refine the ...

At the beginning of the 21st century, metal-on-highly cross-linked polyethelene bearings were introduced, along with metal-on-metal bearings and ceramic-on-ceramic bearings.  All of these "newer" bear ...

At the 21st annual meeting of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons in Dallas, Texas in November of 2011, a survey of joint replacement surgeons was presented.  Within the past year, 82% o ...

There were several papers presented at the 21st Annual meeting of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons in Dallas, Texas in November of 2011.  These papers demonstrated excellent long-term ...