Ouch. Being stripped of your responsibilities is a sure-fire sign that there's something unpleasant on the horizon. After all, you don't fire someone who's got a ton of important work to do, with loads of people underneath him/her. So, over time the poor sucker in management's sights...
One of the most interesting things I’ve come across while reading someDePuy ASR Hip Replacement recallmessage boards is that many hip replacement patients don’t seem to even know what hip implant they received. The upshot of that is that, at the least, they have no clue what’s been p...
Pooled data from prospective clinical trials of thromboprophylaxis that required mandatory postoperative venography showed that among patients in the untreated or placebo arms, there was a 51% incidence of DVT after total hip replacement, a 71% incidence after total knee replacement, and a 48% ...
Osteoporosis is typically found two ways: most often, after a fragility fracture (a break that results from a low amount of trauma), or during a routine bone density scan. Fragility Fractures If you’ve just fractured a bone that’s vulnerable to osteoporosis (hip, spine, humerus, rib, pel...
Your risk of getting psoriatic arthritis may also be influenced by things that happen to you as you go through life. Some think that the disease can lay dormant in the body until something triggers it. Though more research is needed, some potential psoriatic arthritis triggers include: ...
Osteoporosisis a disease characterized by low bone mass and loss of bone tissue that may lead to weak and fragile bones. If you have osteoporosis, you have an increased risk for fractured bones (broken bones), particularly in the hip, spine, and wrist. ...
Surgery is a last resort for very severe RA. That includes when your joints are deformed and damaged, limiting your mobility. The three most common surgeries for RA are: Joint replacement, in which your surgeon replaces your damaged knee, hip, or other joints with man-made replacement parts...
as you lose more cartilage between bones, the knee joint can degenerate and cause you to limp. The more cartilage you lose, the worse your limp can become. That helps explain why severe osteoarthritis of the knees is one of the most common reasons that people have totalknee replacementsurgery...
Because of that, NFL executive vice president Jeff Miller said “it’s certainly my hope” that the NFL will ban hip drops this off-season, according to Judy Battista of NFL Media. One of the issues is that the tackle itself seems hard to define well enough to create a ...
The only relationship found with urinary pentosidine was a significant higher concentration before compared to after joint replacement surgery20. Since urinary pentosidine levels are determined by many of the same factors as serum levels (i.e., intake, tissue degradation, and clearance), the ...