Your knee pain: Resurface or replace ?
Knee pain from arthritis ranges from an occasional annoyance to something that is severely debilitating. Treatments today can leave you pain free and many choices don't involve surgery. When these [...]
Would knee replacement improve your life?
Watch this short video to see if knee resurfacing mayIf you persistently feel exhausted and used up and doing a bodily movement takes elongated than before, you may perhaps be [...]
Joint Resurfacing
Joint resurfacing is an exciting new approach for athletes and active adults with knee pain from damage to the cartilage surfaces. Different from a traditional knee replacement, this approach resurfaces [...]
Robotic Surgery and Your Knee
Combine the precision of robotic image-guided surgery with the success of knee resurfacing surgery for the past 40 years and you have the latest in joint-preserving pain-relieving knee treatment. Resurfacing [...]
Surgery on the other side: Easier or harder ?
I perform many joint replacements for patients that have already had one side replaced, right or left. For many patients with severe osteoarthritis, they are then left with one joint [...]
Knees are like tires
As the population ages, the incidence of osteoarthritis is increasing - and expected to become 6 times more prevalent in the next 15 years. While there are several kinds of [...]
Osteoarthritis
What is arthritis ? Arthritis literally means inflammation of a joint. There can be several causes. The most common cause is osteoarthritis. What really does this mean ? 'Osteo' meaning [...]
Am I too old?
Today I saw a woman with terrible activity limiting knee pain with bone on bone arthritis on her X-rays. A common scenario I see 10 times a day. We discussed [...]