YouTube video by Robert Whitfield MD discussing the trend toward performing joint replacements in younger patients. The speakers note surprise and concern about very young cases; one anecdote states the youngest patient the speaker has performed a joint replacement on was 27. The video examines lifestyle factors and underlying pathologies driving a lower average age for these procedures.
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Whole, I thought for sure before the release of Those peptides, the GL1P agonist that you're going to be taking care of like some 20 somethings with worn out joints.
Youngest person I've ever done is 27.
Which is absolutely listening. That is absolutely ridiculous.
It's bananas. Now, in, in these, in these cases, in very young joint replacement, there are usually underlying problems, pathologies. Right. We have a, you know, a hip malformation that can cause us to. One of the things, the most concerning trend that I see in orthopedics, other than the fact that we're doing about over 30% of joint replacements done in the United States and this is a study that was done in 2018, so it's probably more now, right. Quite a bit more are done what we would call prematurely. So we're doing joint replacements in younger patients who are, who are not as healthy because the American lifestyle has impacted all of our health, who are eating inflammatory foods, who are taking drugs that are not metabolically optimal, who are living a lifestyle that's not metabolically optimal, and they're having joint replacements at a much younger age. So the average age has shifted in the last 15 years from in the 60s to in the low 50s and even into the 40s. And so what's the consequence of that?
