The Things I Miss I’ve been asking myself the same question as everyone else for the last several weeks. When will things back to normal? I miss going out to eat with my wife. I miss taking a stroll through the Atlanta Botanical Gardens with my family. I miss...
I am happy to let you know that starting Monday May 4, I will be seeing patients in the office again. Like everything else, instead of our office going back to “normal,” we have adopted the CDC recommended guidelines and have moved forward to a “new...
First of all, I hope all of you are doing well and are staying healthy and safe. While cancelling appointments and surgeries is disappointing, I do agree with the decision by our local hospitals to postpone all elective surgeries for now. Until we have a better...
One of the most common questions I answer has to do with the right time to undergo joint replacement surgery. Some patients worry about having the surgery too soon. Others are concerned about whether or not they have waited too long. I do think timing of surgery is an...
Ever wonder what osteoarthritis is? In order to understand the reason I perform total joint surgery, I think it is helpful to understand the nature of the disease. When you understand what is going on, the procedure makes more sense. Osteoarthritis is a Joint Surface...
When most people undergo knee replacement, a tourniquet is used during the surgery. For any of you who do not know, a tourniquet is a device that wraps around the leg and use pneumatic pressure to squeeze on the leg and prevent blood flow to the rest of the extremity....
