A research team led by David C. Ayers, MD, has identified important factors in total knee replacement that predict outcomes five years after surgery.

Total knee replacement is an operation frequently needed by hemophilia patients, which greatly improves their quality of life. This operation, however, carries a higher risk of bleeding and ...

As total joint replacements shift increasingly to the outpatient setting, physicians are taking a new, “multimodal” approach to pain management. According to a recent study published in he Journal of ...

While most total knee and total hip arthroplasty procedures are performed in patients with osteoarthritis (OA), they are also effective in treating advanced joint destruction of the knee and hip ...

Patients who engage in structured rehabilitation recover faster, experience less pain, and reduce their risk of long-term disability.

are the most common anesthetics used for total hip arthroplasty (THA, 78.5%) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA, 79.1%). For TKAs, a total of 83.5% of surgeons use peripheral nerve blocks ...

Researchers at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Mass., have created an algorithm to predict total knee replacement outcomes in patients five years post-surgery. The study, co-authored by ...

Total knee replacement is a highly predictable operation but it is surgeon-dependent. We have just entered the second half-century of total knee arthroplasty, which is arguably among the greatest ...