Total knee replacement (TKR) surgery is usually done using spinal anesthesia along with a nerve block to help reduce pain ...

Although opioid-type medications have come under a lot of scrutiny in recent years, they are still the first-line treatment ...

There are two main types of knee surgery, total knee replacement (TKR) and partial knee replacement. In TKR surgery, surgeons cut off the worn down surfaces and resurface the entire joint with an ...

Dr. Adam Rothenberg explains the differences between traditional replacements and the muscle tendon sparing techniques.

Embiid will undergo arthroscopic knee surgery next week, per ESPN's Shams Charania. He has been meeting with team officials ...

Recovery from knee replacement surgery and other surgical treatments ... you should make an appointment to see an orthopedist, a type of doctor who specializes in injuries of the musculoskeletal ...

A 40-year study by Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) researchers has found that active young adults who underwent total knee replacement were unlikely to require knee replacement revision in ...

Joint reconstruction implants (e.g., hip, knee, shoulder) Spinal implants Trauma fixation devices (plates, screws, nails) Dental implants Orthobiologics (e.g., bone grafts, growth factors) Primary ...

Surgeons have also traditionally used tourniquets to keep the area between the knee implant and the bone as dry as possible, which helps bone cement create a stronger bond between the bone and the ...

Vlatko Cancar explains why it was both “a good thing and a bad thing that I went under the knife” last December.