He specializes in knee and hip replacements. Roche said he now recommends GLP1 weight loss drugs for many of his patients.

Vitamin D is cheap and easily available and may improve recovery from joint surgery. So why aren’t more clinicians using it ...

Patients who have significant weight loss with anti-obesity medications after joint replacement show reductions in the risk for revision; however, caution on their use is urged as patients recover.

Adam Sassoon, a hip and knee surgeon at UCLA Health ... likely get you up and walking as soon as a few hours after surgery. Knee replacement surgeries are typically done on an outpatient ...

Metro columnist Dan Casey had hip-replacement surgery Jan. 22 at LewisGale Medical Center in Salem. It was such a positive ...

There was a time when old people particularly those nearing 100 years of age were left to depend on others for the rest of their lives or fend for themselves – without any treatment and had no option ...

It’s the question many patients are too embarrassed to ask, but a new guide from a Somerset hospital is offering clear, medically-backed advice ...

Readers are overjoyed that the metro columnist's recent hip-replacement surgery went well. But they're not so happy with ...

A recent study published in BMJ Open has shed light on how older adults recover mentally after hip replacement surgery. Researchers at Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden focused on a ...

Significantly almost 50 per cent of women and 20 per cent of men over the age of 50 have osteoporosis, which is a significant ...

Even slight weight loss spurred on by cutting-edge GLP-1 drugs can help prevent replacement knees and hips from wearin ...