Healthcare News
Steroid injections for joint pain: Everything you need to know about using them
Corticosteroid injections, commonly known as steroid injections or cortisone, have been used for joint pain for more than 70 years. They offer a rapid, effective way of reducing pain.
How Prehabilitation Prepares Patients for Total Joint Replacement
Prehabilitation — optimizing a patient’s condition before surgery to help optimize their outcomes after it — is especially important in total joint replacement. Patients needing total joint replacement typically have adapted to reduced joint function and increased pain over time. Prehabilitation can help them begin to undo these adaptations by optimizing tissues and modifying behaviors, preparing their body for restoration after surgery.
New hip replacements are likely to last at least 25 years, study suggests
Modern hip replacements are nearly twice as likely as older hip replacements to last at least 25 years, suggests a study published in The Lancet. The authors of the systematic review and meta-analysis employed advanced modeling techniques to estimate that 92% of modern hip replacements are likely to last at least 25 years.
Research moves closer to 'smart' sensors in knee replacements
If you have a knee replacement, imagine pointing your phone at your knee and pulling up an app that tells you how much stress the artificial joint is experiencing. Knowing the activities that cause the biggest problems—which can lead to a second replacement surgery—would be invaluable. Research led by Binghamton University is closer to making this technology a reality.
