This website is specially designed for my patients to provide information to help them understand treatment options for their hip or knee pain. In addition, this website contains outcome metrics for our orthopedics group. I believe this report is important to educate prospective patients and caregivers about the general expectations and likely outcomes relating to their joint replacement surgery.
In addition to specializing in minimally invasive hip and knee replacement surgery, Dr. Rana is working to introduce outpatient hip and knee replacement surgery to Maine Medical Center. He was recently named the Director of the Joint Replacement Center at Maine Medical Center.
Patients who have disabling pain in the knees as the result of arthritic involvement are, as a rule, candidates for replacement of the knee joint. Many measures will generally be tried before the decision is made to perform the knee replacement.
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