Highly suggest you make an apppointment with
Dr Steve Nguyen...he has office hours on Fridays just off Rolling Acres Rd (Across from Home Depot). He can be reached at
407-355-3120.
Dr Nyguyen has developed an entirely new procedure for replacing the total knee -The Lateral Approach...in fact he is the only one in the "World" using this approach and has been doing it for more than 5 years. He uses the same Knee (Stryker) as other drs.
Here are some links to Orthopedics Channel who did interviews with Dr Nguyen.
Kicking Recovery Time! New Knee Procedure | Medical News and Health Information
http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_ch...?storyid=27959
Now after you see some of the videos im sure you will not believe the progress made by Dr Nguyen's patients so I suggest just stopping by his office friday mornings and talk to some patients........its amazing. Now the wait time for the initial visit to see Dr Nguyen can be substantial (weeks) and if you are OKd for surgery he has a 6-7 month backlog in front of you after your approved.
I had miniscus tears repaired/removed by Dr Duke and my problem with him is that you never see him after the surgery (only a PA) even if you have a problem...... and he does knee replacement surgery
the old way whereby you will be in pain for 3 weeks and amble along with crutches/walkers. With Nguyen, most patients walk unassisted in 1-2 days after the operation
with no or minimal pain. You are required to go through a full regiment of Physical thearphy. His expectation is that his patients are back to their routine activities(which differ for each person) in 2-3 weeks and in some cases that even includes golfing.