Total Joint Replacement Surgery For Arthritis

Name: Total Joint Replacement Surgery For Arthritis
Uploaded: 2025-02-12T13:00:10+00:00
Duration: 35 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains total joint replacement surgery for arthritis. Most implants last 15 to 20 years, but revision surgeries carry higher risks of…

12 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok explains total joint replacement surgery for arthritis. Most implants last 15 to 20 years, but revision surgeries carry higher risks of infection and loosening. Pain injections treat symptoms, not the disease itself.

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15 to 20 years.

Steroids and hyaluronic acid.

No; they mainly manage pain.

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The common surgery is called an arthroplasty total joint replacement. An issue with that is that there's a longevity on these replacements and the second time around is not so good. The success rate for a joint replacement is estimated 15 to 20 years before it needs to be replaced. And when you replace the joint, the second time has a high failure rate. Infections getting loose, having some kind of need for a repeated operation, maybe even incapacitating somebody. So we want to put our surgery replacement off as long as possible. Do drugs work? No. Basically just manage the pain. They don't do anything for the disease itself. Injections that are currently covered by insurance, such as steroids or hyaluronic acid.