Mini-Incisions Now Available for Hip Replacement
| A recent advance in hip replacement surgery, the new mini-incision hip replacement procedure involves a breakthrough in surgical technique--hip replacement with only a three to four-inch incision.
Three years ago, Dr. C. Kent Boese, M.D., orthopaedic surgeon with the Alegent Health Orthopaedic Institute, was a pioneer of the improved procedure. |
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"I've done more than 1,000 hip replacements," says Dr.
Boese. "It became a technical challenge to start making the incision smaller and
smaller and smaller."
"There are exceptions," says Dr. Boese, "but in general, people get well faster." Documentation shows that hospital stays for the procedure are one day shorter.
Educated consumers have begun asking for the procedure, and the demand is keeping Dr. Boese on the move. He and a team of three surgeons are traveling the world teaching it to other physicians.
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