There has been a fair amount of marketing over the last six months regarding the need for a gender-specific total knee prosthesis. The company promoting this states that...
After the decision has been made to have a hip replacement and the preoperative procedure is completed, the patient is admitted to the hospital the day of the procedure....
After the appropriate preoperative preparations are completed and the patient is asleep, the surgical procedure will begin. A tourniquet is used to minimize bleeding duri...
When a patient has progressed to a point where arthritis of the knee causes daily pain, limitation of activity, and loss of motion, the patient, after a consultation with...
Over the last five years, there has been quite a bit of interest in minimally invasive joint replacement surgery. In the United States, this phenomenon started with sever...
A commonly asked question by patients is why they are prescribed a blood thinning medication after joint replacement surgery. The reason orthopedic surgeons give their pa...
Although the average age for someone having hip replacement surgery is 68, younger people are also benefiting from this procedure. More then 340,000 people have hip repla...
A variety of bearing surfaces are available for use in hip replacement surgery. The most commonly used articulation is a metal ball against polyethylene (a type of plasti...
While individual results vary based on patient factors, diagnosis, and type of procedure performed, some generalizations about recovery from joint replacement can be made...
I have received comments from the Blog and patients regarding the timing of joint replacement surgery. One of the most frequently asked questions is “How will I kno...
