Lupus 8-18-10 a day in life with lupus
A bone scan equals an afternoon at the hospital. I hate the smell of hospitals.
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Knee replacement technology at Good Sam in Brockton has patients up on their feet faster
The Enterprise of Brockton, Mass. www.enterprisenews.com By Jessica Scarpati ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER BROCKTON The scalpel slit open Gerald Goods left knee from top to bottom. Dr. Stephen C. McNeil, in an operating room at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton, surveyed the exposed knee joint. He could see its natural cushioning had worn away, which is what had brought the 76-year-old Randolph man to him a month earlier. McNeil was there to replace not just this knee, but both of them with prosthetic implants to undo the stiffness and aching Goods advanced arthritis had caused. At this point in a traditional knee replacement surgery, the Easton orthopedist would be drilling a metal rod into the canals of the thigh and shin bones — to determine how he might cut them and fit the metal alloy knee. In the days and weeks after the operation, pain and swelling from the drilling would haunt his patients. The recovery from the trauma of surgery would linger for months. Some would be in more pain than they were before the procedure. But McNeil never did that kind of drilling during Goods surgery in January — nor has he on 150 patients since late 2007, when he adopted a technology that changed the way knee replacement surgery is done at Good Samaritan Medical Center. A small plastic block, no bigger than his palm, is the key to making the popular procedure safer and faster, with a swifter recovery with fewer complications, McNeil said. The block is a customized cutting guide for ...
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