arthroplasty

Recovery following arthroplasty may involve a 2- to 14-day hospital stay.

Total joint replacement (arthroplasty) can be done for many different joints in the body.

The terms also describe the positioning of implants in arthroplasty.

Success of arthroplasty depends in part on whether a person follows a rehabilitation program after surgery.

In the past, arthroplasty used tissue and removal of bone to relieve pain.

And arthroplasty is often done when the fractured bones cannot be properly aligned.

Cervical arthroplasty can also be applied in multiple spaces and it is cost effective.

Themistocles Gluck is thought to have created the first shoulder arthroplasty in the 1800s.

The research is to be published this year in The Journal of Arthroplasty.

Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty may be considered in patients with the following conditions:

Background Patients following total hip and knee arthroplasty are at a significant risk for thromboembolic complications.

More modern designs have produced better results, contributing to a renewed interest in total ankle arthroplasty over the past decade.

It can be associated with knee joint arthroplasty.

In the United States, this procedure constitutes approximately 8% of knee arthroplasty.

Osteotomies are either used in conjunction with arthroplasty or by themselves to correct misalignment.

Efficacy of continuous passive motion following total knee arthroplasty: A meta-analysis.

Sciatic nerve injury occurs between 0.5% and 2.0% of the time during total hip arthroplasty.

Early effectiveness of shoulder arthroplasty for patients who have primary glenohumeral degenerative joint disease.

Osteotomy to restore or modify joint congruity is also a form of arthroplasty.

Bupivacaine often is administered by epidural injection before total hip arthroplasty.

Internal fixation compared with arthroplasty for displaced fractures of the femoral neck.

Arthroplasty of the shoulder is one of the most common of these procedures, though it has only been widely used since 1955.

Allografts are used to replace the bone that has been "resected" using arthroplasty techniques.

Mission Hospital in Bangkok offers total knee replacement surgery or known as arthroplasty.

For rheumatoid arthritis, arthroplasty is done to restore function to a joint or correct a deformity.