Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter says 40 to 60 percent of joint replacement patients report complications after surgery, and recovery can take two to five years. Surgery is irreversible, a risk he says orthopedics doesn't talk about enough.
About 40% to 60%.
About two to five years.
No. The speaker says 'there's no going back from surgery.'
That's over a half. That's a huge amount of people.
So there's no going back from surgery. One in the best case scenario, if you have a joint replacement, it takes about two to five years for as good as it's going to get. You know, you have a lot of risks there. And about between 40 and 60% of joint replacement patients report at least one complication after their surgery. That's over a half. That's a huge amount of people. Now, sometimes those complications aren't causing us life threatening issues, but they certainly can. And it's much more commonly than we want to let people know, particularly in orthopedics. We want everybody to think this is safe and they should be able to get all the surgeries that they want. That's just not the truth.
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