Almost 400,000 joint replacements are performed annually in the United States. In WHAT YOUR DOCTOR MAY NOT TELL YOU ABOUT HIP AND KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY, Dr. Ronald Grelsamer takes the reader through the exact nature of hip and knee replacement surgery. He covers the history and evolution of hip and joint implants, the significant differences between types of implants, the risks and limitations of replacement surgery and the need-to-know facts for a lasting recovery, including a step-by-step physical program to recover from surgery in the shortest time possible. In seventeen accessible chapters Dr. Grelsamer covers every area of concern that a patient may have and enable them to take control, ask the right questions and avoid the common mistakes that so often get made, usually at the patient's expense.

In WHAT YOUR DOCTOR MAY NOT TELL YOU ABOUT HIP AND KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY, patients are given the facts they need to make educated decisions about hip and knee replacement surgery—the two most common joint replacements in the United States.

Dr. Grelsamer is the chief of hip and knee reconstruction at Maimonides Medical Center in New York City and is a staff orthopedic surgeon at the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases. A former clinical director of knee research at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, he has been listed in Castle Connolly's America's Top Doctors and in New York magazine's "Best Doctors of New York."