METAL ALLERGY SAGA RESOLVED AT HSS (Orthopedics This Week)
After nine months of aching knees, shoulders, arms and legs, Diane Velluci was at her wit’s end. Then she went to Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS).
What began as a double knee replacement at a Philadelphia hospital ended in extreme pain and weakness. Velluci says that her original orthopedic surgeon refused to take her complaints seriously, and that she attempted to see other orthopedic surgeons, but none would see her prior to a year in the future.
“I thought, ‘why is this happening to me?’ I’m not a bad person,” she said in the Dec...
The Orthopedics Industry 