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About Total Joint Arthroplasties (TJA)
also known as Total Joint Replacements
   
  • Total joint (knees or hips) arthroplasty is one of the most important surgical advances of the past century.

 

  • 600,000 Americans have joints replaced each year.


  • TJA procedures have positively impacted on quality of life, more than many other surgical procedures have done.


  • A study has projected that there will be an increase of 673% of people having knee replacements, and a 174% increase of people having hip replacements by 2030.

 

                       For Inter-active Video Theatre - anatomy,
                                                hips and knees

What is a total hip replacement (TKR) ?

Total Hip Video Picture
Click on picture above for more surgery videos

View a Total Hip Replacement Surgery

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Click links to:

Indications & Contraindications for surgery

Virtual Hip Surgery click left to assist in surgery

Medical & Surgical Complications

Patient Pathway THR

                            
Normal Knee Anatomy

What is a TKR?

View a Total Knee Replacement Surgery 

Total Knee Replacement Information



Virtual Knee Surgery click left to

assist in the surgery



Indications-Contraindications

from the National Institutes of Health

 

Patient Pathway TKR
Knee_anatomy
Knee Replacement
   
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