With the increasing rate of obesity in the United States, the question has been posed: Does obesity lead to arthritis? To discuss this, I think that it is important to de...
A recent survey in USA Today (USA Today 03/13/2006) showed that 40 million people in the United States have been diagnosed with arthritis. The incidence, by an almost 2 t...
In the last year, there has been increased interest in surface replacement surgery. This is a procedure that replaces the socket side of a hip with a metal shell and the...
A recent Wall Street Journal article (Surgeons’ Weighty Dilemma, February 28, 2006) examined the challenges facing patients and surgeons regarding joint replacement...
Over the last year, there has been quite a bit of interest in computer-assisted orthopedic surgery. This is a technique where input from a computer helps guide the surgeo...
If you suffer from osteoarthritis of the hip and/or knee and have tried more common remedies such as weight loss, exercise, and over-the-counter medications, then consult...
When osteoarthritis progresses to a point where you are having pain with activity involving the hip or knee, there are several things you can to do improve the joint func...
Roughly 10% of the population of the United States is affected by osteoarthritis. While there are known causes, such as post-traumatic arthritis and congenital abnormalit...
The vast majority of people in the world do not develop osteoarthritis of their weightbearing joints. Approximately 10% of the population is affected by some form of arth...
Misconception #5: I heard that joint replacement surgery can only be done over one time. While our goal is to do the best possible operation the first time, in younger pa...
