
Hip Replacement Surgery
Hip replacement surgery involves replacing the worn out ball and socket of the hip joint and
replacing it with artificial surfaces. There has been much innovation in orthopedic surgery. We
have moved through cycles of replacing only the surface of the ball (surface replacement) to
replacing the ball with an attached stem and mating with a socket to complete the artificial joint
and back again to replace only the surface in some selected young patients. Read more...
Knee Replacement Surgery
Knee Replacement Surgery is considered an option when all other measures to preserve your
own natural knee joint have been exhausted. While this is a major procedure, advances in
medicine, surgery and technology have made it one of the safest procedures to undergo. Read more...
Safety and Your Total Joint Replacement Surgery Experience
Replacing the worn out joint has become integral to our lives as we age. So much so, that
meeting people with not just one but two, three and four artificial joints has become
commonplace. Who would have known that? These people look and walk so normally. In fact
nothing about their behavior would suggest that they had an artificial joint(s). Read more...
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