We are pleased that you have considered or selected our center for your joint replacement surgery. Our team is completely focused on your success and return to a pain-free lifestyle. We are excited about the opportunity to serve you during the process.
Our team believes in a comprehensive approach to joint replacement surgery, which means your surgeon, anesthesiologist, nurses, physical therapists, and other members of the health care team are completely focused on getting you healthy.
One of the biggest postoperative challenges for patients undergoing total knee, hip or shoulder replacements is pain. Historically, pain has kept patients in the hospital on an average of two to three days. Pain limits patients ability to participate in physical therapy, and has led to longer hospital stays.
Our center has developed a comprehensive protocol that allows motivated patients to have their total hip, knee or shoulder replacement done in an outpatient setting and go home the following morning.
Through a combination of minimally invasive surgical techniques, regional anesthesia, and a state of the art facility, the patients are able to get out of bed and participate with physical therapy hours after their surgeries, and recover in their own homes.
Newer Techniques for a Better and Faster Recovery
Our patients have extremely high satisfaction with the rapid recovery protocol. It’s better for the patient to go home as soon as possible. The hospital environment can be counterproductive for healing. Hospital acquired infections are a reality, and the longer a patient stays in the hospital environment, the higher the chance is for a post-operative infection. Moreover, complications such as blood clots are lessened if patients are allowed to get out bed and walk.
Newer anesthetic techniques have revolutionized hip, knee and shoulder replacement. Patients receive a regional anesthetic, similar to a local anesthetic, and then are placed into a twilight sleep. This allows patients to avoid undergoing a general anesthesia and lessens complications such as post-operative nausea, vomiting, and confusion. Immediately after surgery, our patients are awake, alert and ready to participate in physical therapy. There is an emphasis on using non-narcotic pain relievers like intravenous anti-inflammatories and Tylenol. Intravenous narcotics are counter-productive to recovery. They will lower blood pressure, increase nausea/vomiting, lessen the desire to get out bed, are constipating, and slow the recovery process.
Credentialed Surgeons Focused on Accurate Reconstruction
Our credentialed surgeons use advanced minimally invasive surgical techniques, where they focus on accurate reconstruction of the joint. All incisions are closed with absorbable sutures, so there are no staples or sutures to remove. Patients are healing faster and their surgeons are seeing them at two weeks out of surgery at a level of mobility that usually took three months for both hip and knee replacements.
Hip and Knee patients receive outpatient physical therapy usually starting in their home and then transition to outpatient physical therapy in 1-2 weeks.
Complete Care From Start to Finish
We focus on the complete care of the patient from surgery through recovery. Our patients that have undergone rapid recovery total joint replacement are routinely more satisfied than those that have undergone traditional joint replacement.
Not every patient is a candidate for ambulatory surgery. It depends on the home situation and other underlying medical problems. For a consultation to see if you would qualify for our program, please contact one of our program coordinators.