Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter says up to 30% of knee replacements happen too early, before joints reach end-stage arthritis. Patients with moderate arthritis are getting implants they may not need yet, driven by financial incentives and referral patterns in orthopedic care.
Totally crap. I mean, it's not true. In orthopedic surgery, we do a lot of surgeries that may or may not be necessary, depending on how bad your joint is. I see this a lot in knee replacement. I mean, there's a study in 21 that was done that showed that up to 30% of knee replacements done in the United States are done what we call prematurely, which means that knee replacement is actually done before your joint is end stage, before your joint is ready for a joint replacement. We do these things for moderate arthritis. Why do we do knee replacements on people who just have moderate arthritis? Well, because the traditional system has basically failed you.
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