Surgery
When does a person seriously consider surgery for his arthritis? When pain takes the pleasure out of life,
when a person can’t sleep because he’s hurting, when a person can’t climb stairs, get up off a chair, off the toilet, or off the floor without pain.
People get serious about total joint surgery when pain medicines don’t work anymore.
The most common two total joint procedures are total hip and total knee replacement.
Check out this Total hip animation at the Arthritis Foundation website at http://www.arthritis.org/joint-surgery.php
Is Hip Replacement surgery for you? The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons website gives information at http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00377
If knee problems are your concern, the Arthritis Foundation shows an animation of total knee surgery at http://www.arthritis.org/joint-surgery.php
Is total knee replacement surgery for you? The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons website gives information at http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00389
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