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The Joint Replacement Program at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is dedicated to providing the highest quality of care for patients with degenerative joint disease.
Our physicians, nurses and staff have special training and knowledge in joint replacement care. Click here to find out more about our physicians.
We perform a high volume of hip and knee operations, and also do research and train future surgeons at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. . In addition to straight-forward hip and knee replacements, many difficult operations are referred to us by other surgeons.
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Joint Replacement Can Restore an
Active Lifestyle
Golfing, tennis, gardening, playing with children or just plain walking. These activities can be quite painful to people suffering from arthritis, other musculoskeletal disease, or injuries. You can enjoy these activities again thanks to one of the major orthopaedic surgical advances of our time — joint replacement. Joint replacement provides relief of joint pain, stiffness and immobility, resulting in a more active, pain-free, independent lifestyle. |
Education and Surgery:
A “Joint” Partnership Instruction classes offer “personal guide” to joint surgery
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Joint replacement does change people's lives. For many arthritis sufferers, a total hip, knee, shoulder or elbow replacement can lessen pain and stiffness. Most older patients can expect their total joint replacement to last a lifetime and give years of pain-free living that would not have been otherwise possible.
New advances such as hip resurfacing and unicompartmental knees offer younger patients hope to return and enjoy an active lifestyle.
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