Find out what likely will happen with your knee if you don’t have revision surgery for a failed total replacement. You’ve had a total knee replacement and, over time, things have gotten worse, leading to [...]
Can stem cell therapy work on a knee that’s had a total replacement? An orthopedic surgeon who also uses stem cell treatments was asked this question by me, at his seminar, regarding my father who [...]
Should you rely entirely on what a bone scan shows if you suspect that your total knee replacement has "loosened" or failed? It is important to discuss this with your orthopedic surgeon. A failed total [...]
“Total Knee replacements can ‘fail’ by a number of mechanisms,” says orthopedic surgeon David Fisher, MD, Director of the Total Joint Center at the Indiana Orthopedic Hospital. There are five chief reasons for a failed [...]
Could there be any nonsurgical alternatives to knee revision surgery for a failed TKR? After all, revision surgery involves just as much recovery time as the original operation. Furthermore, knee revision surgery is more complicated than [...]
An orthopedic surgeon discusses anesthesia options for knee revision surgery. Are you wondering if general anesthesia is absolutely necessary for knee revision surgery? After all, this is quite unnerving, being that a tube is stuck [...]
There is a gold standard for the identification and diagnosis of a failed or loosened knee replacement. The hardware can fail due to unknown factors in some cases. In other words, when a failure occurs [...]
Marcaine injections can do wonders to suppress the pain of a failed or loosened knee replacement. This begs the question of if a gel form of this drug can also be effective. Very Fast Pain [...]
Find out how effective a Marcaine injection might be for detecting a loosened knee replacement (failed TKR). If your doctor suspects that you have a failed total knee replacement (TKR), he might give you an [...]
Exciting new techniques are available for treating failed or loosened total knee replacements, which can cause pain and mobility issues, reducing quality of life. A typical TKR surgery takes three hours. Knee revision surgery is [...]
Unfortunately, there is no one, single test that can definitively detect a failed total knee replacement. Individual doctor interpretation is much involved. Have you seen your surgeon about the possibility that your total knee replacement [...]
Despite how common total knee replacement is, many patients end up with failed or loosened hardware that causes pain and crashes their hopes of regaining mobility. Approximately 50,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with [...]
If you have a failed or loosened knee replacement, wouldn't it be fantastic if this could be fixed without surgery -- a conservative treatment that can resolve this problem? To go through another invasive surgery, [...]
