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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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Purpose For patients with end-stage knee osteoarthritis, joint replacement is a widely used and successful operation to help improve quality-of-life when non-operative measures have failed. For a ...

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 ...

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 ...