A man who went in for a routine knee surgery needed his leg amputated after an alleged blunder by doctors. Wayne Wolff, 57, went to UC Irvine Medical Center for meniscus surgery to repair a torn ...

Knee or hip replacement is a major surgery, and many people must lean hard on their spouses to care for them durin ...

A photo from court documents showing Wayne Wolff’s lower left leg after a knee surgery leads to an amputation. (O.C. Superior Court case file of Wayne Wolf v. Regents of the University of ...

“Many orthopedic surgeons will allow their patients to return to pickleball once they’ve recovered from their knee or hip replacement, but with certain precautions,” Ioonna Félix, a physical therapist ...

This inflammation can affect any of the knee’s three main components: the inner (medial ... joint replacement surgery. A knee replacement can either replace the entire joint or, in some cases ...

Uni compartmental knee replacement (UKR) is a minimally invasive surgery for severe osteoarthritis affecting a portion of the knee. UKR involves less pain, quicker recovery, and smaller incisions ...

Few things are more dreaded among professional athletes than a knee injury. Despite their best efforts, many of them have experienced knee pain associated with injuries like ACL tears and had to ...

Some individuals who have had anterior-cruciate-ligament reconstruction (ACLR), the kind of surgery often performed on ...

A preclinical study by HSS investigators found that earlier anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction led to lower immune cell activity, less inflammation and fewer joint changes associated with ...