Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease that typically worsens over time, as people age. Although often worse in elderly or overweight individuals, middle-aged and even young patients can develop severe arthritis as well. Although women can be affected by arthritis more often than men, more than 30 million Americans are affected by osteoarthritis overall. While…
How to Prepare Your Home for Recovery After Total Knee Replacement
Facing a knee replacement can be a daunting proposition for anyone. There is a lot to think about, including how to properly prepare your home to facilitate a full recovery after the surgery. Almost 700,000 Americans undergo knee replacement surgery every year. Everyone who has this surgery must follow a fairly strict regimen of therapy…
Knee Pain: How Do You Know It’s Time for a Knee Replacement?
Knee replacements have been around for decades with great success. Some initial early prostheses had a limited lifespan, but newer state-of-the-art models are lasting longer and longer. How do you know if it’s time for a knee-replacement surgery? The short answer is you cannot know without consulting an orthopedic specialist. If the pain in your…
What Can I expect from My Hip Replacement?
When walking, sitting down, or getting out of a chair hurts, and other simple activities become painful, it might be time to consider hip replacement surgery. Once upon a time, this was reserved for elderly patients, but it now is routinely done do help younger patients who want to maintain and active and healthy lifestyle….
Tips for Managing Your Knee Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis (OA) occurs when the wear-and-tear associated with life’s activities causes the protective cartilage in our joints to wear down, leaving the bones vulnerable to damage from grinding against each other. This grinding and friction causes pain, which often is accompanied by stiffness, inflammation, and tenderness. For the more than 25 million Americans who suffer…
Advances in Knee Surgery
Our knees take a lot of abuse over time. Normal wear and tear, injuries, and arthritis can take a toll on the cartilage between the bones in our knees. As this cartilage deteriorates, it can cause severe pain and stiffness, inhibit range of motion, and affect our overall quality of life. Thankfully, medical, surgical, and…
How Osteoarthritis Affects Your Knee
Do you have knee pain that limits you from doing the things you love to do? If so, you’re not alone. Your knee pain may be due to osteoarthritis of the knee, which affects millions of Americans. In fact, knee osteoarthritis is the most common type of osteoarthritis. The good news is that early diagnosis…
Do I Need a Partial or a Total Knee Replacement?
If physical therapy and other nonsurgical options have not helped relieve your knee pain or regain your mobility, knee replacement surgery may be a good option for you. If you are considering knee replacement surgery, you’re not alone. According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, approximately 600,000 people each year in the US…
The Importance of Having a Board-Certified and Fellowship Trained Orthopedic Surgeon on Your Side
According to the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, there currently are 29,172 Board Certified Orthopaedic Surgeons – which seems like a drop in the bucket compared to the approximately one million doctors practicing in the United States. This is part and parcel of the highly rigorous training required of those who hold this prestigious and…
How To Prepare For Your First Orthopedic Visit: Tips To Ensure Everything Goes Well
Orthopedic complaints are one of the most common reasons people seek medical care; in fact, one in seven Americans has some type of orthopedic or musculoskeletal impairment. And with patients flocking to orthopedic specialists to relieve their pain – there’s never been a better time to discuss tips and tricks for making the most out…
