/_media/adv/web/images/2011/20111124_Arthrex_TB-378x82.jpg

Subscriptions

Advertising

Resources

About Us

Contact Us

Create An Account Forgot Your Password?
Trouble logging in or creating an account? click here
Home This Month E-Weekly Newsletter Building a Facility Article Archive Second Opinions
Search:
Benchmarking
General Surgery
Accrediting/Quality
Anesthesia
Code/Bill/Reimburse
Building/Renovating
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120126_APIC_LB-154x100.jpg
/_media/adv/web/images/2011/20110502_Provista_LB-154x100.gif
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120123_PDI_LB-154x100.gif
/_media/adv/web/images/2011/20111226_Soma_LB-154x100.gif
Outpatient Surgery E-Weekly

Contact Congress Over Drug Shortage Issues

A Kentucky congressman is urging surgical facilities to contact their members of Congress and request that they sign his letter demanding changes to...

N.J. Posts ASC Inspection Reports Online

State and federal inspection reports of New Jersey's ASCs are now available online, giving patients an opportunity to make more informed choices abo...

Are Opioids Necessary?

While it's not always practical, or even possible, to eliminate opioids from your post-op pain management regiment, reducing their use in favor of n...

Archive > May, 2008 Vol. IX, No. 5

What's New in Hip and Knee Resurfacing

An update on these tissue-sparing, bone-preserving alternatives to traditional joint replacement surgery.

Anthony Carter, MD

Hip and knee resurfacing are generating a great deal of buzz in outpatient circles. While these alternatives to traditional joint replacement surgery are far from new, developments in instrumentation, implant systems, surgeons' skills and patients' expectations are driving resurfacing's recent resurgence. Keep these procedures on your radar. They are viable options for treating the debilitating effects of degenerative arthritis on knee and hip joints and may become mainstays in the future of orthopedic same-day surgery.

Sign in to continue reading.
Email Address:
Password:
Categories: Orthopedics
Keywords:
Hip resurfacing; Knee resurfacing; A future boom; Compartmental; Custom; Direct; Hip; Knee; MRI; Medicare; Patients; Physicians; Resurfacing's; Today; Total; Years; access; accessed; accommodate; active; activities; address; adequate; adjunct; advanced; ago; aim; aligning; allowing; alternative; amount; anatomies; anatomy; anterior; application; approach; argument; arthritis; artificial; baby; ball; based; belief; benefits; bicompartmental; bone; bony; boomers; bottom; built; buzz; candidates; caps; cartilage; ceramic; challenges; clearance; clinical; combined; commonly; commonplace; compartme... show all keywords
Hip resurfacing; Knee resurfacing; A future boom; Compartmental; Custom; Direct; Hip; Knee; MRI; Medicare; Patients; Physicians; Resurfacing's; Today; Total; Years; access; accessed; accommodate; active; activities; address; adequate; adjunct; advanced; ago; aim; aligning; allowing; alternative; amount; anatomies; anatomy; anterior; application; approach; argument; arthritis; artificial; baby; ball; based; belief; benefits; bicompartmental; bone; bony; boomers; bottom; built; buzz; candidates; caps; cartilage; ceramic; challenges; clearance; clinical; combined; commonly; commonplace; compartment; compartmental; compartments; components; composed; comprised; concept; condition; creates; cup; current; damaged; damaging; data; deal; debilitating; dedicated; degenerative; dentist; designed; destruction; deteriorate; development; develops; differs; direct; diseased; driving; effective; effects; enduring; entire; exciting; exhibits; expect; expectations; expected; expensive; experts; facilitates; facilities; failure; faster; femoral; femur; fits; five-inch; flip; focuses; front; fully; function; future; generating; giving; glass; good; great; growing; head; heads; healthy; high; high-level; highly; hip; hips; implant; implanted; implants; in-house; incision; individual; injured; instrumentation; intact; interest; interested; intermuscular; involves; joint; joints; knee; kneecap; knees; lateral; latest; leaves; leaving; limits; long; long-term; made; mainstays; makes; manufactures; match; material; mechanical; metal; minimally; mirroring; molar; moving; muscles; natural; normal; offering; offers; older; opportunity; option; orthopedic; outpatient; overnight; pain; partial; patient; patient-specific; patients; performed; performing; personalized; place; placement; plane; possibility; post-op; posterior; prep; presenting; preservation; preserved; preserves; prior; procedure; procedures; promise; prostheses; prosthetic; proven; providing; pulling; push; quality; quarter-inch; questioning; realistic; receive; recent; recovery; reduce; reducing; regaining; regional; rehab; reimburses; remain; removal; remove; removes; removing; repair; replaced; replacement; replacing; require; restoring; results; resurfaced; resurfacing; resurfacing's; return; revision; sacrificing; same-day; save; secured; segment; set; shape; side; similarly; sister; sits; size; skills; slightly; socket; spared; spares; sparing; subsequent; success; successful; surgeon; surgeries; surgery; surgical; surrounding; system; targeted; targets; tear; techniques; technology; tendons; three-to-four-inch; tibia; time; tissue; tissue-sparing; top; total; traditional; traumatic; treat; treating; treatment; tremendous; typically; unacceptable; undergoing; understand; unicompartmental; unique; unknown; unrealistic; viable; virgin; wear; weeks; well-fixed; widely; widespread; work; workings; worth; years; younger

© Copyright Herrin Publishing Partners LP 2011. REPRODUCTION OF THIS COPYRIGHTED CONTENT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. We encourage LINKING to this content; view our linking policy here.

PRODUCT & SERVICE RESOURCES
Did You See This?
A showcase of products and services geared to make your facility better.

Architects' Showcase
Is a beautiful, efficient new facility in your future?
/_media/adv/web/images/2011/20111216_USWorldMeds_AR-300x250.jpg
Other Articles That May Interest You
Disturbing Trend: Thieves Stealing Endoscopes and Surgical Instruments
Experts say stolen surgical tools are being sold on the international black market.
Manufacturer Presses to Add Surgeon to Pain Pump Lawsuit
I-Flow's tactic: Blame surgeon who used pump that allegedly damaged shoulder cartilage.
Wrong-Ankle Surgery Ends in $500K Settlement for Plaintiff
Woman claimed right ankle was properly marked, but surgeon operated on left ankle.