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Personal meanings in the construction of need for total knee replacement surgery [An article from: Social Science & Medicine]
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Author: F.M. Toye
Manufacturer: Elsevier
This digital document is a journal article from Social Science & Medicine, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This study explores patients' personal meanings of knee osteoarthritis (OA) and total knee replacement (TKR). Personal meanings are important because decisions regarding the need for TKR do not seem to be explained by symptoms alone. A total of 18 semi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of respondents who were listed for TKR at one UK specialist orthopaedic hospital, and who had lower than average disease burden according to standard quantitative criteria. Data were analysed using interpretive phenomenological analysis. Several themes related to need for TKR emerged: adoption of the medical model, a person's social network, pain, functional loss, feelings of vulnerability, dependency, low mood and fatigue, ideas related to disease progression and expectations of TKR. Results suggest that the decision to undergo TKR is not related to symptoms alone, but to personal meanings. Some of these personal meanings may not be useful in accurately assessing the need for TKR, and may result in mis-targeting of treatment. It is important for health professionals to explore and tackle personal meanings when considering treatment. In particular, it may be important to consider gender differences that may influence when men and women are listed for TKR. For example: women may be less likely to discuss treatment options with their doctor; they may be more likely to have heard negative examples of TKR from friends or family; they may be more likely to discuss pain and mobility issues than activities requiring higher function; and they may be more likely to discuss the effect on their mood and the emotional impact of OA.

Your Guide to Total Knee Replacement
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Author: Fairview Health Services
Manufacturer: Fairview Press
Helps patients understand what to expect from knee replacement surgery.

Operative Techniques: Total Knee Replacement: Book, Website and DVD
Price: $229.00
Author: Arlen D. Hanssen
Manufacturer: Saunders
This multimedia resource offers you all the how-to guidance you need to perform all of the latest and best techniques in total knee replacement. The complete, lavishly illustrated volume is made even better with a state-of-the-art companion web site! With chapters on such hot topics as cementless fixation, quadriceps sparing MIS TKR, unicompartmental TKR, soft tissue balancing, and extensor mechanism allografting, you, as well as the members of your cross-disciplinary team, will appreciate the clear and concise, but detailed and visual approach of this atlas and video collection. The result is a detailed, easy-to-use reference that no orthopaedic surgeon should be without.

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Controversies in Total Knee Replacement (Controversies in Orthopaedic Surgery Series)
Price: $295.00
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Cornell Univ., New York. Examines the many unresolved issues in the field of total knee replacement surgery, addressing each issue in the form of a debate. The authors each put forth their point of view, addressing a number of questions posed by the editor, who acts as the moderator.

A Practical Operative Guide for Total Knee and Hip Replacement
Price: $139.00
Author: Ajit Mehta
Manufacturer: JAYPEE IMPORT

Written by authors who have performed more than 800 total knee and hip replacement surgeries, this full-color book offers step-by-step guidance on this type of procedure

Hip and knee replacement surgery can improve the quality of life significantly in a wide variety of conditions and disorders, but total knee and hip replacement surgeries are special operations. The surgeons require the highest order of aseptic precaution, surgical skill, and a team of specialists in preoperative, perioperative, and postoperative techniques and protocols. This book fully explains step-by-step procedures and precautions to be observed in undertaking this kind of surgery. Full-color photographs and a DVD of surgical procedures enhance the book's usefulness.

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