The goal of joint replacement is to ease pain and restore motion to knees, hips and other joints damaged by disease, injury or age. Middlesex Health System's Total Joint Replacement Program has been designed to help meet patients' need for information from the time joint replacement is being considered, and it continues after surgery, even while you're at home and well on the way to recovery. Our doctors have specialized in joint replacements for over 25 years. For the past ten years, our orthopedic surgeons have been using a standardized approach to joint replacement surgery and follow up care that results in excellent outcomes for our patients. In fact, a specialized team has just completed an outcome study of over 1000 joint replacement surgeries performed at Middlesex between 1990 and 1997.
Results indicate very low complication rates as compared to national norms.
Also, patients reported very high levels of satisfaction with the results of their surgery and with the care they received at Middlesex Hospital. We are committed to monitoring the results of joint replacement surgery at Middlesex on an ongoing basis. More than 1000 surgeons send information about the results of joint replacement surgery to the Registry and receive reports comparing their results to national averages. This gives us a way to evaluate improvements in the quality of life of our patients following joint replacement surgery as clinical complication rates. Once you've decided to have joint replacement, you will work closely with your physician and with a Care Coordinator who will be assigned to you.