Orthopedic Education

If your doctor suggests hip surgery as a treatment for your injury or arthritis of the hip, you may feel a little scared and unsure about what's likely to happen to you. Relax. Getting the right information and knowing the options can help you approach your impending treatment in a calm, unstressed state of mind.

This section of our website provides key facts about hip replacement surgery and related issues for patients and their families.

Helpful Links

Innovations in Minimally Invasive Knee Arthroplasty
http://www.miknee.com
A total knee replacement procedure that minimizes everything except patient satisfaction.

Knee Replacement Surgery Information
http://www.kneereplacementinfo.com
This website provides key facts about knee replacement surgery and related issues for patients and their families.

Supartz - Joint Fluid Therapy
http://www.supartz.com
Joint Fluid Therapy can provide welcome relief from knee pain caused by osteoarthritis. SUPARTZ Joint Fluid Therapy, the world's most prescribed Joint Fluid Therapy, has proved safe and effective according to years of clinical experience. With 119 million dosages sold worldwide since 1987, SUPARTZ Joint Fluid Therapy has many success stories. Yours could be the next one.

American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons
http://www.aaos.org
The home page of the AAOS is your source for the latest legislative, educational, healthcare policy, and research information. The site includes the by-laws and position papers of the AAOS, and the latest federal and state laws enacted that pertain to the practice of orthopedics and medicine.

Orthopaedic Research Society
http://www.ors.org
This site provides information about the organization's mission and fall newsletter, the annual meeting, and access to the table of contents for past and current issues of the Journal of Orthopaedic Research, through which the musculoskeletal community communicates the current state of orthopedic research.

Orthopedics Today
http://www.slackinc.com/bone/ortoday/otcurr.htm
Current and back issues of Orthopedics Today written for orthopedic surgeons. Site includes breaking news, specialty forums, online seminars, and a shopping mall that lists product information and a venue for contacting the manufacturer with questions.

Arthroscopy Association of North America
http://www.aana.org
The AANA Web site provides support services for members, including a member directory, description of the annual meeting, and other instructional courses that offer CME. Scholarships and fellowships available are listed. You can learn about the latest in arthroscopy research by searching lectures presented at previous AANA meetings.

Journals of the AMA
http://pubs.ama-assn.org
All editorial material from The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the American Medical Association's (AMA) Archives Journals is now available online through the AMA Publications Web site.

Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
http://www.jaaos.org/
Cited in Index Medicus and Medline, this is the official peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Only abstracts are available to non-subscribers; full text is available to AAOS members.

The American Journal of Sports Medicine
http://www.sportsmed.org/Journal/Default.htm
American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine publishes The American Journal of Sports Medicine. This site lists all the editions of the journal printed since May-June 1997 and allows access to abstracts of selected articles in each journal.

The National Athletic Trainers' Association
http://www.nata.org
The mission of the National Athletic Trainers' Association is to enhance the quality of health care for athletes and those engaged in physical activity, and to advance the profession of athletic training through education and research in the prevention, evaluation, management and rehabilitation of injuries.

The Arthritis Foundation
http://www.arthritis.org
For centuries men and women, young and old, have been affected by a disease in which little was known except its symptoms. But in 1948, a group of scientists and physicians came together to take action against this condition called arthritis. Perhaps heartened by breakthroughs in medicine, this community of scientists envisioned a day when a cure for arthritis would be discovered and the millions of people with arthritis would no longer suffer. Their actions resulted in the formation of the Arthritis Foundation

eOrthopod
http://www.eorthopod.com/
Millions of Americans seek medical advice online each day. Most of what they find is either inaccurate, hard to understand or linked to advertising. eOrthopod provides our patients with medically reliable information that is regularly updated.