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Rheumatology > Arthritis Multimodal Pre-Op Program Aids Knee Replacement Candidates — Patients feel better as they wait for surgery; a few find they no longer need it by John Gever, Contributing ...

Surgeons perform more than a million knee replacements a year in the U.S. Many patients put it off and live with pain for years because the recovery from replacement surgery is so daunting.

Patients are getting back on their feet faster than ever Hospital stays after knee replacement surgery have drastically shortened over the past few decades. “Historically, patients stayed for weeks in ...

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Following the personalized pre-operative plan, Dr. Durgin, among other expert orthopedic surgeons at TMH, can guide the robotic-arm during bone preparation to execute the pre-determined surgical ...

In fact, each year, more than 600,000 adults in the U.S. have knee-replacement surgery and by the year 2030, it is estimated that 3.48 million total knee replacements will be performed annually.

Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Richard Rooney, FACS, recently implanted Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo county’s first smart knee implant during a total knee replacement surgery at Lompoc Valley Medical ...