Success Stories

July 2010 - Hip Arthritis Can Ruin Your Life

When I saw Bill a few months ago in the office he was limping. He is a 70 year old retired auto worker who had never been injured.

Recently he has had pain at night and his family noted he was limping.

Tylenol was not helping.

After a thorough exam of the hips and back and plain x-rays of those areas, I diagnosed severe arthritis in one hip and moderate arthritis in the other.

At times, and this was one of them, nothing but a total hip replacement would help because of the severity of the arthritis.

After talking it over with his family and studying my website article “AML Total Hip Replacement” Bill decided to proceed with AML Total Hip Replacement surgery.

His surgery was a complete success. He walks with a cane for now, but feels he will be able to set that aside soon. He has no pain at night anymore and he walks comfortably. He hopes to be able to play a few holes of golf early this Fall. I think he will make it.

Our goal is simple – to help people return to more pain free, functional lives.

June 2010 - Carpal Tunnel Treatment Is Often Delayed

Camille is a 32 year old teacher who did not have typical carpal tunnel findings. She had been told for years she had “bad circulation” and possibly arthritis as well from a previous injury.

A nerve test had been equivocal in the past. She came to see me almost in tears.

What to do? Experience is a great teacher.

I encounter these difficult to diagnose carpal tunnel cases on occasion. If I am convinced that carpal tunnel is the problem, I will go ahead and do the surgery.

Her symptoms disappeared in a few days after the surgery confirming that she indeed had carpal tunnel syndrome.

Our goal is simple – to help people return to more pain free, functional lives.

May 2010 - Painful Arthritic Knee Treated with Supartz

I recently saw Mary B, a 59 year old grandmother, in the office. Two years of increasing pain and no longer able to lift her grandchildren – she had had enough.

There was too much arthritis for arthroscopic surgery and she didn’t want a total knee replacement.

After five once weekly injections of Supartz she is pain free. She said I had “given her life back”.

See Online Orthopaedics Library article on Supartz (Sodium Hyaluronate).

Our goal is simple – To help people return to more pain free, functional lives.