Tag Archives for knee replacement
Stop Treating The MRI
The baby boomers have entered the orthopedic surgery stage, bringing the overall statistics of orthopedic surgery in America to a new level! In 2009 Americans ages 45 to 64 had approximately 116,000 hip replacements, and 97,000 knee replacements between 2004…
Tags: Aging, baby boomers, health care, knee replacement, Medical News, Medicare, MRI, New England Journal of Medicine, orthopedic surgery, seniors
Big Spike in Knee Surgeries Calls for Compression Therapy Devices to Lessen Risk of Blood Clots
New statistics show a big increase in knee replacement surgery since the late 1990s. From 1997 to 2009, knee surgery increased for women ages 45 to 64 by 157 percent and men in the same range by 144 percent. The…
Tags: Compression Therapy Devices, knee replacement, Sequential Compression Device, Vascular PRN
Hips and Hormones
by Jose Sonik Some news from the science front! Hormone replacement in women is linked to hip replacement – and childbearing is linked to knee replacement. These two new findings come out of England where 1.3 million women were followed…
Tags: childbearing, estrogen, exercising, hip replacement, hips, hormones, knee replacement, pregnancy, progestragen, tibolone
Children, Hormones, Knees, and Hips
by L. Hauben Some news from the science front! Hormone replacement in women is linked to hip replacement – and childbearing is linked to knee replacement. These two new findings come out of England where 1.3 million women were followed…
Tags: childbirth, estrogen, hip replacement, hormone replacement therapy, knee replacement, progestragen, tibolone
