How is osteoarthritis in the knee or the hip diagnosed?
The diagnosis of osteoarthritis is usually carried out, when the patient comes with complaints of pain, restricted movement, and other systems. The problem with diagnosis
Dr. Yaron Bar Ziv is an expert orthopedic surgeon, and amongst the leading practitioners, in Israel, of knee and hip replacement surgery. He is deputy director of Orthopedic Ward A, and head of the Joint Replacement Service at Assaf HaRofeh Medical Center.
The joint replacement unit at Assaf HaRofeh, is considered the foremost of its kind in Israel, and is recognized as a national center of excellence, and is one of few in Israel that receive orthopedic surgeons from abroad for advanced study.
Dr. Bar Ziv specialized in the anterior approach hip replacement with Dr. Kristoff Corten, who is considered one of the leading surgeons in the world in this field, and since 2012 Dr. Bar Ziv has only been using this approach when operated on hips.
The diagnosis of osteoarthritis is usually carried out, when the patient comes with complaints of pain, restricted movement, and other systems. The problem with diagnosis
Make sure that you are as active as you can be. Do physical exercise recommended by a doctor, or a physical therapist. Go for conservative
What medication do you recommend that I use for the treatment of pain? Are there side-effects to the treatment? If so, what are they? What
Medicinal treatment is proposed when all the possibilities of more conservative treatment have failed to relieve the pain, and to improve the functional capabilities of
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