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Joint Replacement Overview
The Joint Replacement Center at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
Offers Minimally Invasive, Bloodless Surgical Techniques |
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Joint pain can affect more than just your backhand or golf swing. Painful joints -- due to injury, arthritis, or bone disease -- can drastically diminish your quality of life. For generations, such pain has been endured as part of “getting older.” But times have changed. Adults who are now approaching their 60s, have embraced a life of fitness and activity and show no sign of letting up.
While staying active through adulthood has many health benefits, years of walking, hiking, biking or playing sports -- even if it’s only on the weekends -- may also lead to painful injury or wear and tear on joints. We now know there are many ways to prevent or reduce injury and arthritis-related joint pain, and even disability. These include early diagnosis and appropriate management, including weight loss, exercise, and, in some cases, joint replacement.
Minor Incisions Bring Major Results
Enormous progress has been made in joint replacement over the past several years, thanks to less-invasive surgical procedures and improvements in the function and durability of artificial implants. Minimally invasive orthopedic surgeries, including hip and knee replacements, allow patients to return to an active life more quickly. These innovative procedures are performed with smaller, non-muscle cutting incisions, which result in smaller scars, less pain, and allow for a faster recovery than traditional surgery methods.
Englewood Hospital’s Joint Replacement Center brings together a multidisciplinary team of medical professionals who are at the forefront of minimally invasive, orthopedic surgeries, including gender-specific knee implants, hip resurfacing, minimally invasive 2-incision (MIS2) total hip replacement, and complex revision surgery.
Furthermore, most orthopedic surgeries at Englewood Hospital are bloodless and require no transfusions of banked blood, which often means faster healing.
A Personalized Process
Although joint replacement surgery is fast becoming a commonly performed procedure, the experience is different for every patient. At Englewood Hospital and Medical Center’s Joint Replacement Center, patients are educated and guided through pre- and post-op expectations by fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeons, a dedicated nurse practitioner, expert nurses, and rehab professionals.
Are You a Candidate?
Minimally invasive joint replacement surgery is not for everyone. Talk to your doctor if you think you might be a candidate. For a physician referral or for more information about the innovative orthopedic surgery options offered at Englewood Hospital’s Joint Replacement Center, call 1-866-980-EHMC or just click here to download a pdf of our brochure. |
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