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The Joint Care Center

The Jont Care Center

The Joint Care Center at Northwest Texas Healthcare System has been specially designed for patients recovering from total hip and total knee replacement surgery. The Joint Care Center offers a multidisciplinary team of orthopedic physicians, nurses, physical therapists and occupational therapists — all located in the same convenient area.

Physical therapists and occupational therapists are proud to provide free patient education classes, discharge planning and a comprehensive range of personalized services, all geared toward maximizing patient outcomes.

The dedicated staff at the Joint Care Center is recognized as a leading provider of orthopedic medicine.

Learn more about total hip and knee replacements by attending one of our monthly, complimentary classes.

Hip and Knee Surgery

  • Evaluation and treatment of hip and knee problems, including arthritis surgery and joint replacement
  • Evaluation and treatment of sports-related injuries and overuse syndromes, rehabilitation, arthroscopic knee and shoulder surgery and anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
The experienced team of orthopedic surgeons, nurses and staff perform consultations, surgeries and other treatments each year with an emphasis on positive patient outcomes.

A total hip replacement involves surgically replacing diseased cartilage and bone of the hip joint with artificial materials. Total hip replacements are performed most commonly when the patient has progressively severe arthritis in the hip joint. The most common type of arthritis leading to total hip replacement is degenerative arthritis (osteoarthritis) of the hip joint. This type of arthritis is generally seen with aging, congenital abnormality of the hip joint or prior trauma to the hip joint. Other conditions leading to total hip replacement include bony fractures of the hip joint and death (necrosis) of the hip bone. Hip bone necrosis can be caused by fracture of the hip, drugs (such as alcohol or corticosteroids), diseases (such as systemic lupus erythematosus) and conditions (such as kidney transplantation).

Progressively intense chronic pain, combined with impairment of daily function including walking, climbing stairs and even arising from a sitting position, eventually become reasons to consider total hip replacement. Because replaced hip joints can fail with time, whether and when to perform total hip replacement are not easy decisions, especially in younger patients. Replacement is generally considered after pain becomes so severe that it impedes normal function despite use of anti inflammatory medications. A total hip joint replacement is an elective procedure, which means that it is an option selected among other alternatives.

Total knee replacement is usually performed for patients with severe degenerative joint disorders such as osteoarthritis, in which the articular, or moving, surfaces of the knee deteriorate and lead to severe pain, limitation or loss of function and/or deformity of the joint. The surgery is also performed to replace a badly fractured knee and when previous joint replacements have failed. Bilateral replacement means that both knees are replaced at the same time.

Other treatments are usually used before knee replacement surgery. These include:
  • Acetaminophen or anti inflammatory drugs if the joint has degenerated

  • A procedure called synovectomy, surgical removal of inflamed synovial tissue. This lubricates moving parts of a joint osteotomy, which is restructuring of the bones to shift stresses from diseased tissue to more healthy tissue.
For more information call 806-354-1774.

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Knee Replacement

Knee Injuries and Disorders

Bones, Joints and Muscles

Surgery and Rehabilitation

Bone Diseases

Fractures

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