Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter discusses when joint replacement surgery is appropriate, emphasizing a whole-patient approach and noting that many patients reach surgery after repeated conservative treatments and system delays exhaust non-surgical options.
There's a certain point at which you have to do a joint replacement in order to maintain the function of a joint and that's when we take the whole organism into account. Right. We want to do that. I think that a lot of times people have been on the hamster wheel in medicine that we all get to run on where you do this. You go into your primary care. Doctor, I have a knee problem. Okay, well to take an X ray it's going to take six weeks, blah, blah. Then you get to the specialist, he does an injection, you do some therapy. Maybe you do like four rounds of that. How long are you going to put up with that before you have a joint replacement? Well, it might not necessarily be that your joint is in stage, but you might have just run out of options. Then we've developed a system where we can go, well, you're out of options now we got to do surgery.
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