Welcome Back, people. My name is Nate, and this is Med Ed. The only blog that can help you save a life with few clicks and some of your precious time. Christmas break is over, so I'm back in action with more medical science. Today, we are talking about joint replacement surgery. I chose this topic mostly because my grandma just got all new knees, and the pain is real. Yet, I'm interested.
The basics of it is that an orthopedic surgeon takes out a damaged joint, like a knee, shoulder, etc. It is then replaced with a plastic, metal, or plastic and metal artificial joint. They are initially damaged by arthritis and diseases like it, injuries, or some other cause of sorts, like years of use. The joint just wears away.
During surgery, the doctors put you on a load of anesthetics and put a prosthetic joint in your bod. It takes about 1-2 hours depending on what's getting replaced. Afterwards, they put you into a room until you wake up, then... the pain is real. Sure, there are pain pills out there, but they only help so much. Months of suffering and some physical therapy later, you're back to normal. Now, you can run and frolic as you did in your youth thanks to your new half-terminator legs.
This topic was a pretty short one, without much else to explain besides what goes on during the surgery. You can probably understand it though. Cut, remove, replace, seal. Easy as that. Well, that's it for now. I'll see you all next time on Med Ed.
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