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Dr. Grammer shares how his own experience undergoing multiple knee and shoulder surgeries gives him a personal understanding of the fears and challenges patients face. He discusses his approach to treatment, including non-surgical options, when joint replacement may be necessary, and the importance of tailoring care to each patient’s individual goals and lifestyle.
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I’m Cody Grammer. I’m a joint reconstruction specialist in Northwest Arkansas, and I provide freedom and restore patients’ mobility through hip and knee replacement. I’ve had a bunch of knee surgeries. I’ve had a bunch of shoulder surgeries. I know what the patient can expect to encounter. I know the fear that goes along with being a patient in this instance.
I don’t jump straight to surgery. I would say 90% of the time you are going to try some non-operative treatment before you jump to joint replacement. Sometimes people are just so debilitated and their arthritis is so bad that joint replacement is really the only answer, and so for those folks we will start talking about joint replacement pretty quickly.
Every patient is different and they have different goals. This is part of the discussion before surgery: what do you want out of your joint replacement? I think we have to have a realistic idea of whether or not a joint replacement will do that for you. You want to get people back to living their life the way they want to live their life.
You can’t really be healthy if you can’t walk well. Walking is the most natural thing that we do, and that’s number one: we want to get people back to where they walk without pain.
