Minimally Invasive Knee Replacement Surgery Being Performed At Florida Hospital Celebration Health Thursday April 1, 2004
Minimally invasive surgery provides dramatic results.
Peggilou Flick loves dancing, but when her daughter tried to teach her line dancing and she twisted her knee, she heard that “pop” that means only one thing… total knee replacement surgery. Fortunately, her physician, Dr. David Dore, orthopedic surgeon at Florida Hospital Celebration Health, is the first doctor in Central Florida to perform minimally invasive total knee replacement surgery - meaning shorter incision, quicker recovery, and less pain for Peggilou.
More than 300,000 people undergo total knee replacement surgery each year to replace the worn out surfaces of the knee with metal and plastic. Traditional total knee replacement surgery incisions average 8”-10”, whereas the minimally invasive incision averages 4”-6”. Minimally invasive total knee surgery also provides less recovery time because the patient’s quadricep muscle tissue does not have to be cut.
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