The Year 2014 In Review
The year 2014 saw over 1,300 joint replacement procedures done at the Joint Center at Valley Medical Center. After reviewing the data from that year, we would like to sha...
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Long-term Outcome of Unicompartmental or Partial Knee Replacement Versus Total Knee Replacement
Dr. Masonis and colleagues from Ortho Carolina presented a poster at the 25th annual meeting of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons in November 2015. They r...
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Prophylaxis for Deep Venous Thrombosis After Joint Replacement Surgery
Dr. Tan and coauthors from the Rothman Clinic presented their results at the 25th anniversary of the American Association of hip and knee surgeons in Dallas, Texas Novemb...
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Affect of High BMI on Outcomes Following Total Joint Arthroplasty
In the July, 2015, issue of the “Journal of Arthroplasty” authors Hasham Alvi. M.D. et al from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, evaluate the affect of obesit...
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Association Between Multiple Drug Allergies and Inferior Outcomes with Joint Replacement
In the July, 2015 issue of the “Journal of Arthroplasty”, authors Alexander McLawhor and M.D. and colleagues from Hospital for Special Surgery in New York reviewed the as...
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Severity of Arthritis Predicts Outcomes in Young Patients with Total Hip Replacement
A poster presented at the 25th anniversary meeting of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons in Dallas, Texas November 5th through 8th from the University of I...
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“Life was Incredibly Tough and Getting Unbearable–Valley Medical Center Gave Me My Life Back!”
His neck made a little cracking noise when he lifted a log overhead nearly 20 years ago during a building project. Since then, Randy battled pain that got in the way of m...
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The Evolution of Length of Stay for a Joint Replacement Surgery
Traditionally, joint replacement surgery required a several-day stay in the hospital. In the 1980s, the average length of stay was approximately 7 days, and now it has de...
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Study to Examine Benefits of Pre-Operative Fitness on Surgery Outcomes
2015 marks the start of the 12th year of our research department. 2015 will see us initiate a study to evaluate the effectiveness of preoperative optimization of patients...
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Innovations in Hip Replacement
Hip replacement has been one of the most successful operations over the last three to four decades. It was felt to be the operation of the century by an author in 2007. W...
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