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Joint Replacement Surgery Hospital India offers highest quality bone and joint health care with attentiveness, care and compassion to meet the needs of the patients and their loved ones. The medical team includes board-certified orthopedic surgeons who are familiar with all the aspects of the musculoskeletal system. Our hospital uses the most advanced technologies available for the orthopaedic procedures and has a lower complication rate.

Hospital stays generally range from two to five days for total knee replacement and two to six days for total hip replacement. The new minimally invasive procedures being performed by our surgeons typically get our patients out of the hospital sooner, with less pain and a faster overall recovery. On occasion, patients may be admitted to a rehabilitation or skilled nursing facility after being discharged from the hospital. However, our goal is to eliminate the need for such interim care. Through the preoperative education, combined with physical therapy and home health services, most of our patients return to everyday activities within a one or two.

Because of advancements in instrumentation and surgical technique, a vast majority of patients can elect to undergo a small incision joint replacement. There is no weight or size limit, nor an age limit for these procedures. The size of the incision is, to some degree, driven by the size of the implants that are placed at the time of surgery.

Larger bones require larger replacement implants and longer incisions. Obese patients may require larger incisions for exposure of the joint that is being replaced, but the same care is taken to minimize the disruption of soft tissue structures at the joint level.

Depending on your medical conditions and your level of physical fitness before surgery, typically patients undergoing less invasive joint replacement stay 1-2 days before going home. Our Orthopedic Surgeons believe it is usually necessary to stay one night after joint replacement surgery for medical observation for even the most fit and healthy patients. Despite our many advancements in recent years, less invasive joint replacement is still a major orthopaedic surgery and can have significant complications that your medical team will be watching for during your hospital stay. The majority of these complications is observed in the first 1-3 days after surgery.

Most patients can drive safely in as few as 2-6 weeks after surgery. Each patients recovery is different after joint replacement. To be able to safely drive, the patient must discontinue narcotic pain medication and have the strength and reaction time to safely operate their vehicle without endangering others.

As long as it needs to be for your surgeon to safely and accurately perform your surgery. Using less invasive techniques and instruments, the incision is usually 3-4 inches in length. However, if this length of the incision does not allow adequate visualization to do the surgery appropriately, the incision is lengthened. More complicated hip and knee replacements with significant joint deformity, re-do or revision joint replacements require larger incisions. The length of the incision for a traditional approach to hip or knee replacement is 8-12 inches.

It is widely accepted that less invasive approaches to joint replacement are more difficult to perform correctly than standard approaches to hip and knee replacement. It is important to select a surgeon with appropriate training and experience performing these procedures. Specific modifications to surgical instrumentation and technique must be made to safely and reproducible perform a less invasive approach. Simply making a shorter incision without significant adaptations can result in poor surgical results and severe complications. Without appropriate surgical exposure or visualization, errors in alignment and sizing of components, damage to nerves and arteries, and poor soft tissue balancing can compromise the end result for the patient. It is important to talk to your surgeon about their training and experience performing minimally invasive procedures.

Currently there are no long-term studies of minimally invasive joint replacements as the techniques and instruments used to perform these surgeries have been evolving over the last ten years. The orthopaedic literature shows that patients who undergo a less invasive joint replacement enjoy a faster recovery in the first 2-4 weeks after surgery. Studies have documented less blood loss at the time of surgery, less pain and pain medication usage, shorter hospital stays, faster return to walking with a cane or no assist device, and faster return to work. These early advantages are only significant in the first 6-12 weeks after surgery. By 3 months, joint replacement patients have achieved 90% of their ultimate recovery regardless of the approach used at the time of surgery. Long term success of a hip or knee replacement depends on the appropriate selection, sizing, and alignment of the implants.

With appropriate instruments and surgical training, this can be achieved through a minimally invasive or traditional approach to the procedure. Current studies of long-term results of hip and knee replacement suggest a 90-95% survivorship of the reconstructed joint at 20 years follow-up.

The goal is to safely and accurately reconstruct your hip or knee while disrupting as little normal tissue around your joint as possible. This results in faster relief of pain and restoration of normal function, getting you back to life, back to work, and back to the activities that you enjoy most.

A less invasive approach to hip or knee replacement is a much more technically demanding procedure than traditional approaches. Without appropriate training and equipment, and an experienced surgical team, complications can occur that affects the long term function of the reconstructed joint. In addition, most revision (or re-do) replacements and some primary (first time) joint replacements require significantly more exposure of deep joint structures than can be safely accomplished using minimally invasive techniques. Your surgeon can describe what is needed for your specific procedure.

Where were you trained to complete small incision hip and knee replacements? These procedures are fundamentally different than traditional joint replacements in both technique and instrumentation. This technique is not something a surgeon can learn on a weekend course and immediately incorporate into their practice. Without appropriate training, the surgery can lead to poor outcomes with serious complications.

Many surgeons advertise minimally invasive approaches, but change nothing but the size of the skin incision. What really matters to the patient is what is done with the soft tissue (muscles, tendons, ligaments) under the skin. To safely and reproducibly complete these new approaches, a whole new set of instruments and techniques have been developed.

We use a spinal anesthetic when possible, combined with regional techniques that allow patients to participate with therapy right after surgery.

Our Orthopedic Surgeon chooses a family of implants with a proven track record of clinical success. He routinely uses a knee prosthesis that has one of the lowest rates of revision in large total joint registries. The hip implants selected by the surgeons are based on individual variations in anatomy. These are fine tuned to adjust for gender differences and patient size to best recreate a patient’s anatomy. The less invasive techniques he uses do not influence the selection of the correct implant for each patient.

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