In 2014, one of my now-retired colleagues, Lyle Sorensen, said to then 57-year-old Seattle resident Mary Lou Hanske, “You definitely needed a new knee,” when she was in the recovery room following ...

A recent study of an ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia technique, called femoral nerve block, shows that it leads to less opioid use and allows the majority of patients to go home within hours of ...

Two types of regional anesthesia do not make patients more prone to falls in the first days after having knee replacement surgery as some have previously suggested, according to a study based on ...

Knee or hip replacement patients who forego general anesthesia during surgery and instead receive pain-blocking medication recover more quickly and report less pain, according to the February issue of ...

As knee replacement surgery becomes more common, more people know the difficulty of recovery. In order to avoid some of the pain and the associated medications that can cause nausea, more patients are ...

Use of intermittent femoral and sciatic nerve block combined with an in-house physiotherapy protocol among patients with knee stiffness produced early gain of range of motion, less range-of-motion ...

A recent study of an ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia technique, called femoral nerve block, shows that it leads to less opioid use and allows the majority of patients to go home within hours of ...

Two types of regional anesthesia do not make patients more prone to falls in the first days after having knee replacement surgery as some have previously suggested, according to a study based on ...