Total Joint Replacement

Physical therapists play key role for recovery in hip fracture study

Each year more than 260,000 older Americans are hospitalized for hip fractures, a debilitating injury that can severely and permanently impact mobility. Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) studied two types of home-based interventions and discovered that these treatments are effective in helping individuals ...

2022-12-12T13:32:41-07:00

PRP therapy can reduce the risk of second meniscus failure

Platelet-rich plasma therapy involves the extraction of blood from the patient, which is then centrifuged to obtain a concentrated suspension of platelets. It then undergoes a two-stage centrifugation process to separate the solid and liquid components of the anti-coagulated blood. PRP owes its therapeutic use to the growth ...

2022-12-12T13:32:42-07:00

New recovery strategies outlined for hip replacement patients

Low-risk patients undergoing a total hip replacement with a posterior approach can skip the standard hip precautions currently recommended for post-surgical recovery, according to a new study conducted at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), in New York City. Eliminating standard precautions in this population did not increase the ...

2022-12-12T13:33:01-07:00

SRO Patient Speaks Out About Total Shoulder Replacement Surgery

Dr. Neema Pourtaheri of Santa Rosa Orthopaedics responds to TSR patient’s story of recovery and shares information on why this surgery works so well on older patients. Following three decades of a career in law enforcement Santa Rosa resident Michael Armstrong enjoyed being active over his 22-year stretch ...

2022-12-12T13:33:02-07:00

How knee joint injury can lead to osteoarthritis

  Knee joint injuries are typically related to sports, such as football, rugby or ice hockey, but people often do not know that such injuries may lead to joint inflammation and post-traumatic osteoarthritis. In advanced post-traumatic osteoarthritis, joint cartilage breaks down completely, causing severe joint pain, lack of ...

2022-12-12T13:33:03-07:00

Overweight children have greater risk of developing knee and hip osteoarthritis

The results of a study to be presented at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2018) suggest childhood and adult obesity increase the risk of developing hip osteoarthritis (OA) and knee OA but not hand OA. Obesity and OA are two interconnected health care problems affecting a ...

2022-12-12T13:33:20-07:00

Weight loss provides benefit for knee osteoarthritis patients

Knee osteoarthritis pain reduced by up to 50% Researchers previously showed that overweight and obese individuals with knee osteoarthritis can reduce pain by 50% and significantly improve function and mobility with a 10% or more weight loss over an 18-month period. The investigators' latest findings, which are published ...

2022-12-12T13:33:21-07:00
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