Joint venture: What a new hip or knee really costs

   Joint venture: What a new hip or knee really costs (MarketWatch)
Patients’ jaws drop when Dr. Steven Schutzer tells them it takes a whole year to heal after knee or hip replacement surgery.
Schutzer, director of the Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, isn’t saying it takes that long for people to get up and functioning. He just means that full healing of the soft tissue and bone generally takes 12 months or more.
Still, the patient might not care about this clinical definition, wondering only when he’ll be able to hit the slopes ...