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What Exercises (or Movements) to Avoid After a Knee Replacement
Strengthening and stretching muscles is an important part of recovery following knee replacement surgery. However, some types of movements and exercises may do more harm than good.
What to know about hip replacements
A hip replacement is a common surgical procedure that a surgeon will perform to treat a damaged hip joint. The operation involves replacing the joint with an implant, or a prosthesis.
Home going instructions after total hip/total knee replacement
Recovering from total knee or total hip replacement is a gradual process but the payoff is great: less pain and more mobility. Here's a guide to what to expect after your joint replacement surgery.
Knee replacement surgery: Overview
Knee replacement surgery (knee arthroplasty) involves removing a patient's damaged joint surface and replacing it with a metal and plastic implant. This surgery is performed on patients with severe knee arthritis (most commonly, osteoarthritis) to decrease pain and improve mobility, and it tends to have a high success rate.
Hip replacement surgery: How to prepare
There are several things you need to keep in mind as you prepare for a total hip replacement surgery. You might need to adjust some of your medications, like blood thinners. And you need to prepare your home so it will be easy and safe for you to get around as you are recovering.
Myths of knee replacement surgery
Once you have made a decision to proceed with knee replacement, you will undoubtedly hear from friends and family about their experience with this surgery. As we learn more about improving results and enhancing safety with this surgery, there are details that may change about the process of a knee replacement. A friend who had knee replacement 20 years ago may have had a very different experience then you would have today. Here we review some of the myths of knee replacement, and what we have learned over time.
Getting knee steroid injections does not appear to increase need for earlier knee replacement surgery
Researchers say patients should be reassured that these common injections do not appear to cause progression of osteoarthritis.
Surgical approaches used for hip replacement
Total hip replacement has become one of the most common and most successful types of orthopedic surgeries. Nearly 500,000 hip replacement surgeries are done in the United States every year. While hip replacement surgery is largely standardized, there are variations in surgical techniques.
Rapid Recovery Protocol Can Lead to Increased Range of Motion After Total Knee Arthroplasty
A new research article published in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons® (JAAOS) shows that a rapid recovery protocol (RRP) leads to increased range of motion (ROM) and decreased length of stay (LOS) in the 12 months after total knee arthroplasty (TKA).
Porous tantalum acetabular implants show excellent survivorship for complex revision THA
Porous tantalum cementless acetabular components show stable fixation, positive outcomes and “excellent survivorship” at 10- to 15-year follow-up for revision hip arthroplasty, according to data presented at the Virtual EFORT Congress.