You Don’t Have to Live With Joint Pain ST. HELENA’SCooNJoINTREpLACEmENTINSTITuTE Syour knee and hip joints. Your joints are Clinic. As you research the orthopedic team that experience of the surgeons, they are able toThanks to advanced technology and thetrack record.Blackwood, a CJRI Fellowship graduate, and RashiGupta, current CJRI Fellow from the Clevelandimple movements such as walking,bending and turning require the use of involved in almost every activity you do. Joint will diagnose, recommend treatment, perform operate on patients with greater accuracy pain can limit your mobility, keeping you from surgery and manage your recovery, you should through small incisions using regional anesthetic enjoying the activities you love. Whether you are carefully consider the surgeons’ experience and and light sedation to minimize post-anesthesia just beginning to explore available treatments, side effects. Most patients are walking the or are considering joint replacement surgery, this same day, and return home within twenty-four article is for you. hours. Dr. Coon observes, “It is a muscle-sparing A common cause of joint pain is arthritis. The surgery. We preserve normal ligaments as much prevalent types of arthritis are Osteoarthritis, also as possible.” known as degenerative arthritis, because it is the Technology reigns supreme at St. Helena “wearing out” of cartilage; Rheumatoid Arthritis, a Hospital, which acquired the MAKO robot in form of inflammatory arthritis and an autoimmune 2010, and recently purchased a second robot, a disease; and Post-traumatic Arthritis, which may distinction very few hospitals can claim. Computer- develop after an injury. This may be managed by assisted technology allows the surgeon to more a family doctor or internist with physical therapy, accurately plan for your surgery with a three- shots and/or medication. However, when these Don’t let joint pain prevent you dimensional model of your knee or hip, and results no longer work, an orthopedic surgeon should from living the life you love. in more exact placement of your joint replacement. be consulted to determine if surgery is necessary. Contact the Coon Joint “Essentially, we aren’t allowed to ‘color outside the The Coon Joint Replacement Institute (CJRI) is Replacement Institute at lines,’ making it safer for ligaments, blood vessels arthritis, helping you regain your active life, free CJRI is also using ShapeMatch® technology, the877.747.9991and surrounding tissue,” observes Dr. Coon. dedicated to restoring lost movement caused by of pain. CJRI is home to founder and director Dr. and schedule your appointment latest 3-D solution designed to facilitate implant Thomas Coon. Having been named one of the to help you Live Younger placement. Topping the list of honors, the Coon top 125 orthopedic surgeons in the country, Dr. Longer™. For information and a Joint Replacement Institute is one of only ten Coon has performed over 9,000 joint replacement list of our upcoming educational institutions in the United States, and the only one surgeries, and holds the patent for QuadSparing™ seminars, please go to in Northern California, using the OrthoSensor technique. He is one of two surgeons who co- www.napavalleyjointcare.org smart trial, a device that allows accurate ligament designed the MAKO™ knee implants. Dr. Coon balancing for the first time using cell phone and is joined by orthopedic surgeons C. Brian microprocessor technology. SPECIAL ADvERTISEMENT S E P T E m B E R / o c T o B E R 2 0 1 2 43
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