An orthopedic surgeon explains why joint replacement surgery succeeds or fails before the operating room. He aims to get patients walking within an hour after surgery, arguing that high-quality tissue and overall health matter more than surgical skill alone. Pre-habilitation and post-habilitation are as critical as the procedure itself.
Our goal is to walk within an hour of the surgery. There's enormous amount of data showing that if you get up and walk on your joint replacement immediately, your confidence goes through the roof of trusting the joint.
I love thought leaders like yourself that are really patient-centric and thinking about what is the best possible outcome for this patient to get back to full life.
It's like you're an artist. You want that canvas to be good quality canvas. So if the canvas or the patient is not quality, they don't have good tissue or good metabolism and good health, No matter how great of a painting you draw, no matter how great of a surgery you do, you're gonna have a bad outcome.
The focus on prehabilitation, posthabilitation, minimally invasive surgery, and the use of all of the biohacking modalities tells me that you're really focused on the whole patient journey.
My big passion is controlling the episode of care for these patients.
Where do you see the, the future of orthopedic surgery going?
I think the future of orthopedic surgery will be
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