Too Much Knee Surgery? Dirty Details of Medicare Review, and More (Orthopedics This Week)
Dr. Donald Shelbourne, founder of the Shelbourne Knee Center in Indianapolis, tellsOTW, “My partners and I have been discussing the interesting fact that at least half of the people who are told by other orthopedic surgeons that they require a total knee replacement do not need this operation. We are able to treat many of these people nonsurgically. I see patients all the time whose X-rays look bad, but who are not in pain. These are the people who know that you must keep moving your knee or it will get s...
