Study: Total Knee Replacement Surgery Patients Who Live Far From Hospital Experience Better Outcomes: Surprising results led one researcher to lobby for practice changes at his facilityAHC MEDIASame-Day Surgery
Watch this patient's story about a full return to intense athletic activities after a total knee replacement.
When it comes to total joint replacements, traditional advice is: Don’t exercise too much. Don’t run. The fear is that the joint replacement will come loose or wear out. It’s possible that this advice to limit activities actually increases the number of failures. Our advice is to exerc...
Hip replacement surgery in general is a successful operation. The success of your hip replacement is measured by whether or not you are satisfied with the decrease in your overall pain and the increase in your mobility, as well as the durability of your implant over time. ...
Functional and radiological outcome after total knee replacement performed with mini- midvastus or conventional arthrotomy: controlled randomised trial. Int Orthop 2009;33:1233e7.Juosponis R;Tarasevicius S;Smailys A;.Functional and radiological outcome after total knee replacement performed with mini-...
I never thought I’d be able to stop HRT (hormone replacement therapy). I tried twice before without success. My intolerance to hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, headaches and brain fog kept me coming back to hormones the two times I tried to quit. ...
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Total and partial joint replacement has finally moved out of the hospital. Our patient was pleased to have avoided a hospital for her total knee replacement. Hospital infection rates are higher than outpatient settings, and are more difficult to treat. Hospitals are also large, inefficient and ...