It can be tough to know who to trust when you need medical care, especially when you need surgery on the spine, hands, hips, or knees. Fortunately, every doctor at Westlake Orthopaedic Associates is highly trained and specializes in a specific type of condition or surgery. Let’s talk about how credible the Westlake doctors are…
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An Insight on Arthroscopic Surgery for Knee Pain Relief
Knee arthroscopy is one of the safest orthopedic surgical procedures in practice today. It helps surgeons make an accurate diagnosis and to even perform certain types of small repairs to the knee joint, such as removing tiny shards of bone or smoothing out injured cartilage. Let’s talk about how arthroscopic surgery works, particularly on the…
Is Hip Reconstruction and Hip Replacement the Same?
Fractures, complex injuries, developmental conditions, or degenerative conditions like arthritis can cause damage to the bones, ligaments, and other tissues in your hip joint, often causing pain and making your movements difficult. Fortunately, you don’t have to live with pain since many treatment options are available for joint pain, such as surgical and nonsurgical. Surgical…
Conditions Treated with Arthroscopy
Joint injuries and problems are common occurrences regardless of age. Traditionally, doctors used to cut through the large areas of your tissues to access the joint and make a diagnosis or offer treatment. However, the advances in surgery have led to the arthroscope – a narrow tube with a system of lenses, a small video…
How Much Do You Know About Lumbar Spine Surgery?
Back surgery is one of the most common orthopedic procedures in the United States. It is also one of the most complexes and can be a life-changing event for patients. There are many different types of back surgery, but all surgeries in the lower back (lumbar spine) have one common goal: to relieve pain. Back…