High-Volume Joint Replacement Surgical Team Helps Enhance Patient Outcomes
June 23, 2023 at 8:32 p.m.
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Now free of chronic arthritis pain, Mattson says his turnaround was years in the making. Before connecting with the team at Forté, he suffered two failed surgeries – one partial and one total knee replacement – leaving him in constant pain and increasingly frustrated.
“I had the partial done, thinking that would alleviate the pain, and it didn’t,” said Mattson. “It just made it worse. In September 2021, they decided to put a full knee in, but it didn’t take. So after six months of still being in pain, like it was bone on bone, I took a new approach.”
Mattson says he contacted the Indianapolis Colts, who referred him to the team’s physicians at Forté. He scheduled an appointment with Dr. Lucian Warth, one of Forté’s fellowship-trained joint replacement surgeons specializing in a particular area of the body and performing a high volume of these surgeries each year. This focus gives Forté’s team more experience, more data to drive improvements and deeper insight into treatment options.
“For him to be able to tell me where I was hurting without me telling him just blew my mind,” said Mattson. “Just the way he spoke and everything, he was very confident. The way he described everything, and when he said I can fix you, I knew right off the bat, yeah, he’s going to.”
In a knee replacement revision, a surgeon removes some or all of the original prosthetic parts and replaces them with new ones. While relatively rare in general orthopedic practice, it is a significant part of practice for fellowship-trained joint replacement surgeons such as Warth.
“My goal is to restore a patient’s quality of life, whether they’re 16 years old or 95 years old,” said Warth. “For younger, active patients like Mr. Mattson, we know that newer implants and fixation methods, including bone ingrowth titanium cones, will decrease loosening or wear over time. I’m proud to see him free of pain and able to return to his active and fulfilling lifestyle.”
Now free of chronic arthritis pain, Mattson says his turnaround was years in the making. Before connecting with the team at Forté, he suffered two failed surgeries – one partial and one total knee replacement – leaving him in constant pain and increasingly frustrated.
“I had the partial done, thinking that would alleviate the pain, and it didn’t,” said Mattson. “It just made it worse. In September 2021, they decided to put a full knee in, but it didn’t take. So after six months of still being in pain, like it was bone on bone, I took a new approach.”
Mattson says he contacted the Indianapolis Colts, who referred him to the team’s physicians at Forté. He scheduled an appointment with Dr. Lucian Warth, one of Forté’s fellowship-trained joint replacement surgeons specializing in a particular area of the body and performing a high volume of these surgeries each year. This focus gives Forté’s team more experience, more data to drive improvements and deeper insight into treatment options.
“For him to be able to tell me where I was hurting without me telling him just blew my mind,” said Mattson. “Just the way he spoke and everything, he was very confident. The way he described everything, and when he said I can fix you, I knew right off the bat, yeah, he’s going to.”
In a knee replacement revision, a surgeon removes some or all of the original prosthetic parts and replaces them with new ones. While relatively rare in general orthopedic practice, it is a significant part of practice for fellowship-trained joint replacement surgeons such as Warth.
“My goal is to restore a patient’s quality of life, whether they’re 16 years old or 95 years old,” said Warth. “For younger, active patients like Mr. Mattson, we know that newer implants and fixation methods, including bone ingrowth titanium cones, will decrease loosening or wear over time. I’m proud to see him free of pain and able to return to his active and fulfilling lifestyle.”
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