According to the American College of Rheumatology, around 790,000 knee replacements take place in the United States each year — and this number is increasing, possibly due to an aging population. If ...

Researchers at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Mass., have created an algorithm to predict total knee replacement ...

Medications that help patients sleep linked to more falls, fractures, and other problems after joint procedures, a study ...

Same-day discharge after joint replacement surgery is feasible in patients with a history of atrial fibrillation (AF), ...

Same-day double knee replacement is also out of the question for ... as studies demonstrate that having total joint replacement surgery at a high-volume orthopedic center has a lower risk of ...

Knee or hip ... Advertisement Joint replacement surgery has become more common as the U.S. population grows and ages, researchers said in background notes. About 544,000 total hip replacements ...

A photo from court documents showing Wayne Wolff’s lower left leg after a knee surgery leads to ... the Register reports. Three days after his initial surgery, Dr. Wang once again operated ...

Love pickleball, but facing a knee or hip replacement ... players pick up their paddle promptly following joint replacement surgery. What's more, three-quarters say they're playing as well ...

with three focused on new ways to help patients recover faster after total knee arthroplasty (TKA), also known as knee replacement surgery. What follows are highlights from these studies ...

Replacement ... the knee joint. For their new clinical trial, researchers recruited 98 patients at clinics in four different countries. The trial compared two different approaches involving cartilage ...

with three focused on new ways to help patients recover faster after total knee arthroplasty (TKA), also known as knee replacement surgery. Tourniquets have traditionally been used during TKA to ...

Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve replacement without the need for open-heart surgery. For years, Mertz, a great-grandmother from Essex ...