Joint replacement

HEAD: Promote Your Value: 6 Ways to Boost Your Career with Credentials SUBHEAD: Whether you’re looking for a new job or hoping for advancement in your current situation, ensuring that employers know about your professional credentials is key to a higher profile and better prospects. Credentialing and certification are parts of many fields, from nursing to high tech to accounting. Employers often require that you take a test or meet certain standards to remain in a position, but have you thought…

have in our joints are a normal part of aging and that we should suffer with them or try to suppress the pain with over-the-counter pain medications. But that doesn’t have to be the case. An orthopedic surgeon in Frisco TX can help with therapies or surgeries to alleviate chronic pain and to make life easier. In the past, people often didn’t live long enough to wear out their joints. But, improvements in medical care have meant that people are living longer and knee and hip joint problems…

Osteoarthritis is a disease of joints that means they do not move as smoothly as they should be, due to the thinning of the cartilage [1]. This disease mostly affects people over the age of 65, and it is estimated that 2.46 million people suffer from osteoarthritis in England alone, just of the hip joint. Osteoarthritis causes a lot of pain to the patient and a loss of mobility due to the damaged joint. It has been found that joint replacement offers significant pain relief and improvement in…

Introduction: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease that is for a long term. And it’s happen in the joints, surrounding tissue and other organs causing inflammation of those organs. Causes: The cause of RA is unknown and not clear. It is an autoimmune disease which means that the body attacks by mistake their own immune system and the healthy cells. But it's thought it may involve environmental factors, genetic makeup and hormones changes. Smoking may involve to RA. It happens…

which had undergone bilateral hip replacements by the age of 21 years. In his early thirties, the left prosthetic hip was replaced because of mechanical problems, with the right side replaced the following year. A year later he developed bilateral discharging sinuses over the hips and underwent several incision and drainage procedures.” Potential Pathogen In the case of the individual that developed an infection after receiving bilateral prosthetic hip replacement, the pathogen that appears to…

Medical Story: Reverse Shoulder Replacement “This surgery gave me my life back,” said Elizabeth McMearty, a successful and recovered patient who received a reverse shoulder replacement on February 24, 2014. Before receiving this intense surgery, Elizabeth was unable to drive a car, brush her own hair, feed herself, dress herself, or lift her arm past 90 degrees. Elizabeth now sees herself to have a more purposeful life, without pain in her shoulder. In 2005, Elizabeth was diagnosed with…

synovial membranes, joints, cartilage, tendons, 4 ligaments, the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), posterior cruciate ligament (PCL), medial cruciate ligament (MCL) and the lateral cruciate ligament (LCL). There are also sac like pouches called menisci which are like Dr. Scholls for the knee. Over time the joints and cartilage in the knee will start to wear down due to osteoarthritis (hopkinsmedicine.org, nd). While the break down is occurring of the cartilage and joints, the femur and tibia…

WHY IS THE PROCEDURE DONE? A total hip replacement is a surgical procedure where the diseased/damaged cartilage and bone of the hip joint is replaced with artificial materials called implants. This surgery may be considered following a hip fracture or for someone who has severe pain due to arthritis. INDICATIONS FOR SURGERY: When osteoarthritis (also known as degenerative arthritis) is not curable by medical therapy and the patient continues to experience pain while walking, climbing stairs and…

Bibliography 1. Almada, P., Archer, R. (2009) Planning Ahead for Better Outcomes. Orthopaedic Nursing, 28 (1), 3-8. Level V in this article author’s talk about how, registered nurses were conducting preoperative home visits with patients planning joint replacement surgery. The visits were intended to help patients and the families to provide better understanding of what to expect form from the preadmission process to the recovery period. It also insured a safe environment for the recovery…

PICKING A BONE: CAUSE, PREVENTION AND THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE REPAIR AND REPLACEMENT OF BONE INJURIES Prepared for: Dr Tas Bedford TPP7155 Course Examiner University of Southern Queensland Mr Timothy Biddle TPP7155 Course Moderator University of Southern Queensland Prepared by: Rebecca Apps TPP7155 Student Date of submission: October 2015 INTRODUCTION The purpose of this report is to depict the various injuries that can occur in the human skeletal and muscular systems, the causes…