by | | Knee Replacement Blogs
According to New Orleans orthopedic surgeon Dr. Richard Meyer, when lesser measures can no longer control the pain and disability of arthritic knees, surgery to reconstruct or replace them then becomes a consideration. These are completely elective procedures, and...
by | | Hip Replacement Category Posts
According to New Orleans orthopedic surgeon Dr. Richard Meyer, when most of his patients wake up from hip replacement surgery, that deep-seated, bone-on-bone, grinding, stabbing pain that they’ve been living with is gone. It’s one of the best surgeries in today’s...
by | | Orthopaedic Surgeon
According to New Orleans orthopedic surgeon Dr. Richard Meyer, knee replacements nearly doubled across the country between 2000 and 2010 to almost 720,000 operations, and the number of hip replacements increased even more to 330,000 procedures. And that rising trend...
