What is Revision Joint Replacement Surgery?
“Revision Joint Replacement” means that someone has already had a joint replacement and now it must be redone or revised for one of a variety of reasons.
Patellar (Knee cap) Resurfacing in Knee Replacement
The knee cap, or patella, is an important part of a knee replacement. The knee cap runs over a groove in the thigh bone, and when it does not run smoothly after a knee replacement, it can be one of the biggest reasons for pain or dysfunction.
Hip and Knee Fellowship Training
Fellowship training as a hip and knee specialist is a year after finishing residency, dedicated entirely to learning how to perform hip and knee replacements. From the straightforward classic techniques, to the modern robotic, custom, or complex revision, we saw it all.
Tourniquet-Free Knee Replacement Surgery
There has been recent literature supporting the move away from routine use of a tourniquet during total knee replacement surgery. Reviews of recent studies on the use of tourniquet have shown lower blood loss and less postoperative pain in patients that had no tourniquet during surgery.
What is Robotic-Assisted Joint Replacement Surgery?
Robotic-assisted joint replacement means that your surgeon will use a machine, called a robot that incorporates preoperative imaging (x-ray or CT) and/or data gathered during the surgery.
What is Direct Anterior Total Hip Replacement?
Hip replacement is considered for folks with advanced hip arthritis. There are different ways to perform this surgery, one of which is called “Anterior Hip Replacement”.
What is a Custom Knee Replacement?
With traditional “off-the-shelf” total knee replacement, during the surgery we will size the femur (thigh bone) and tibia (shin bone) to get appropriate sized implants to fit the bone as closely as possible based on the bone cuts we have made.
What is Partial Knee Replacement
Many people with arthritis (loss of cartilage) at the knee have only lost cartilage in one part of the knee. For these people we are able to replace only the area where the cartilage is lost, which allows us to preserve all the ligaments and the normal bone at the knee that must be removed for a total knee replacement.
What Olympian had this hip surgery?
This implant is known as a hip resurfacing, an implant typically reserved for young active males, which has fallen out of favor since the problems with “metal-on-metal” hips were identified. However, some surgeons will still use this implant for some patients.
Is A Conversion Total Knee a Primary or a Revision?
As most knee surgeon’s know: patients undergoing conversion knee replacement (a total knee replacement after a prior knee surgery) have far more complications than patients who never had knee surgery before. We reviewed tens of thousands of knee replacement surgeries in hospitals across the country. The patients having a conversion total knee replacement had nearly twice as many medical complications, infections, and re-operations within 30 days.