A pioneer of minimally invasive joint replacement surgery Dr. Berger performs surgeries on an outpatient basis. His patients typically go home the same day
In a typical hip or knee replacement surgery, a surgeon makes a 12-inch incision cutting muscle, tendon and bone. A patient spends three or four days in the hospital, then it’s a month before they can drive and three months before they can go back to work.
But hip and knee replacements with Dr. Richard Berger, orthopaedic surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush and assistant professor of orthopaedics at Rush University Medical Center, are anything but typical.
A pioneer of minimally invasive joint replacement surgery, Dr. Berger performs surgeries on an outpatient basis. A few hours after they emerge from the operating room, his patients typically walk 200 feet around the nurse’s station, climb up and down a flight of 15 stairs, and then go home the same day.
Normally, surgeons cut muscles and tendons, and the joint is dislocated. There are a lot of functional restrictions, and the patients have a great deal of pain. Then, because they’re afraid of the pain, they’re apprehensive about moving their leg in physical therapy.
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