Dr. Joshua John‑Ram Schacter advises patients not to rush into surgery, emphasizing that joint replacements are irreversible and carry risks. He lists potential complications—chronic pain, infection, stiffness, blood clots, and nerve or blood vessel injury—and urges exploring all non‑surgical options before deciding to have surgery.
Never rush straight to surgery. There are so many options before you have to get cut. If you get cut, we can't take that back. Once you have a joint replacement, we can't take that back. Joint replacements have their own problems, right? You can have chronic pain after a joint replacement. You can have an infection. You can have stiffness, you can have blood clots. You can have injury to your nerves and blood vessels. And so before you rush into surgery, regardless of what your doctor says, let's think about this. Let's explore all the options before you do something drastic.
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