Orthopedic surgeons at Emory Johns Creek Hospital use robotic technology to perform knee replacements. Accordingly, robotic surgery offers enhanced precision and accuracy, decreases complications,...
More than half of Australians who underwent knee replacement for osteoarthritis were obese, increasing their risk of having the operation at a younger age, especially among women.
A study by The University of Queensland Rural Clinical School (UQRCS) compared data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2017-18 National Health Survey with the Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry. The paper is published in the ANZ Journal of Surgery.
The world's most common form of arthritis, knee osteoarthritis, causes sufferers pain and hurts their quality of life. Total knee replacement is the only option for people with severe knee osteoarthritis, but even that invasive surgery still leaves up to a third of patients with chronic knee pain. Many people who undergo total knee replacement surgery go on to become chronic opioid users.
Using hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and having several children significantly increases the likelihood that a woman will need to undergo joint replacement surgery later on in life, new research suggests.
If you follow developments in interventional medicine, you’ve probably noticed a shift. Procedures that were once reserved for oncology and acute hemorrhage are migrating...
Article courtesy of Dr. Nicholas DiNubile, Vice President of the A4M, an orthopedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine, best-selling author, keynote speaker, and one of our medical editors who is dedicated to keeping you healthy in body, mind and spirit.
If you grew up in the 1970s, you may remember the Six Million Dollar Man TV show with Steve Austin. The show began with a futuristic-type regeneration of an injured Steve Austin, and they would say, u201cwe have the technology, we can rebuild him.u201d It was a great one-liner but seemed so far-fetched. Fast forward 30 years, or just one generation. The future is now. We have the technology!
Article courtesy of Dr. Nicholas DiNubile, Vice President of the A4M, an orthopedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine, best selling author, keynote speaker, and one of our medical editors who is dedicated to keeping you healthy in body, mind and spirit.
If you grew up in the 1970s, you may remember the Six Million Dollar Man TV show with Steve Austin. The show began with a futuristic-type regeneration of an injured Steve Austin, and they would say, u201cwe have the technology, we can rebuild him.u201d It was a great one-liner, but seem so far-fetched. Fast forward 30 years, or just one generation. The future is now. We have the technology!
We are now routinely seeing regenerative technologies emerge in a wide variety of medical and surgical specialties. Orthopedic surgery, the treatment and prevention of muscle, bone and joint ailments, is certainly on the regeneration cutting edge.
