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  • Direct approach to hip replacement

    Jill Porter is a lifelong athlete who pounds the pavement on courts and fields across a variety of sports.

    So when her left hip started hurting, she hoped it was something that rehabilitation and anti-inflammatories would take care of.

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  • Carroll Wade Pogue

    Pogue Carroll Wade Pogue, died Thursday, October 13 following an eight month struggle with declining health. He was born in O’Donnell, Texas, November 19, 1925, to Chester Pogue and Mamie Cogburn Pogue. He spent his childhood and teen years in Throckmorton, Texas, until he joined the Navy in March 1944. He was discharged in May 1946, having spent fourteen months of sea duty in the Pacific.

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  • New technology eliminates guesswork in knee surgeries

    Operating with a computer-assisted visualization guide consisting of one high-def TV for Dr. Stefan Kreuzer and another for an associate who keeps watch over the software, a robotic arm gently directs the surgeon’s hand as he chisels an ever-so-precise chunk from the tip of a patient’s arthritis-damaged femur. Should Kreuzer wander off course the least little bit, the computer squawks irritably, then locks him down cold.

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  • New operating table improves hip replacement surgery

    Using a device that looks more like a torture rack than a surgical table, surgeons are now able to replace a hip through the front of the pelvis, limiting tissue and muscle damage and leading to faster recovery.

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  • Hip replacements heal faster with new approach

    Recovery times cut in half

    As people live longer, more active lives, hip replacement surgery is becoming more and more common. Thanks to innovative technology, surgeons are getting people back on their feet doing what they love, faster.

    Pat Groves has been a runner for more than 20 years. But the past 10 haven’t been easy.

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