Sentences with phrase «joint replacement said»

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The attorney general's seat is up for grabs in the November election, but state law says the Assembly and Senate can name a replacement in a joint session.

«Our findings indicate that surgical weight loss prior to joint replacement is likely a cost - effective option from a public payer standpoint in order to improve outcomes in obese patients who are candidates for joint replacement,» Dr. Dodwell said.

«With our data, I think we can say with confidence that bariatric surgery prior to total joint replacement is not a harmful recommendation,» said lead study author Alexander McLawhorn, MD, MBA, an assistant attending orthopedic surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.

«The bottom line is that obesity is increasingly common among patients undergoing joint replacement, which creates a myriad of technical and medical challenges, and likely contributes to the financial burden of the surgery,» said senior author David G. Lewallen, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon, also from Mayo Clinic.

University of Wisconsin computational engineer Vadim Shapiro says the technology used to analyze David could help in the design of human joint replacements that distribute stress to bones in a natural way.

Due to the unusual stress on their joints as they dance, many ballerinas need hip replacement surgery in their early teens, says Thalmann, who described the ongoing modeling project here today at the annual meeting of AAAS, which publishes Science.

Cronstein says related future therapies, if successful, would prevent or delay the need for some of the million or so joint replacements performed each year, numbers of which are growing in part thanks to obesity, which puts more pressure on joint structures.

«When a patient comes in with a torn ACL or PCL, most orthopedic surgeons recommend surgery to repair the ligament because of its importance to the natural function of the knee,» said William Bryan, M.D., a Houston Methodist orthopedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine and total joint replacement.

«Adults are living longer, and many are maintaining a very active lifestyle, creating the need for long - lasting joint replacements,» says Robin Pourzal, PhD, a research scientist in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Rush University Medical Center.

«There is a risk of infection with any surgery, but infections after a joint replacement surgery are harder to treat,» Clyburn said.

«Ideally we would like to be able to regenerate this tissue so people can avoid having to get a joint replacement, which is a pretty drastic procedure and is unfortunately something that some patients have to go through multiple times,» said Tuan.

In addition to offering relief for people with osteoarthritis, Tuan said replacement cartilage could also be a game - changer for people with debilitating joint injuries, such as soldiers with battlefield injuries.

If those stop working, patients can still go on to have a total joint replacement, which is also a very effective form of therapy, says study coauthor Brian Feagan, MD, a professor of medicine and the director of the clinical trials unit at the Robarts Research Institute at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

Dr. Weiss, who practices at Rhode Island Hospital, says he performs anywhere from one to three knuckle - replacement surgeries each month, usually on the knuckles at the base of the fingers (known as the metacarpophalangeal joints).

Specialty Products says that these alignment problems can be solved with its heavy - duty replacement arms, which feature DOM tube construction and use patented, adjustable ball joints and new SpecRide bushings.

An injury that results in, say, spondylolisthesis of a back joint with high pain levels, will attract a higher award than an injury resulting in a successful hip replacement.