5 ■ SPRING 1994 ISSUE ■ SINAI HOSPITAL Sinai Hospital Sinai is right in our neighborhoo • No matter where you are in metropolitan Detroit, you'll find a Sinai facility near you. Since 1953, Sinai has grown from one hospital in Detroit to include several outpatient facilities and more than 30 physicians' offices in locations near you. Sinai Blumberg Health Center Sinai Hechtman Health Center 31500 Telegraph Bingham Farms, MI 48025 Sinai Berry Surgery Center Sinai Family Medical Center Oak Park FARMINGTON - 28500 Orchard Lake Road Farmington Hills, MI 48334 Parkwoods Plaza 13361 West Ten Mile Road Oak Park, MI 48237 Sinai Rose Imaging Center 32005 Northwestern Highway Farmington Hills, MI 48334 Sinai Physical and Occupational Therapy at Crown Pointe Sinai Health Center 25900 Greenfield Road, Suite 110 Oak Park, MI 48237 6450 Farmington Road West Bloomfield, MI 48322 Sinai Clinical Neuroscience Center Sinai Oakland Internists And Associates 5821 West Maple Road, Suite 192 West Bloomfield, MI 48322 28625 Northwestern Highway Southfield, MI 48034 27600 Hoover Road Warren, MI 48093 McNichols (Six Mile) Jeffries Freeway For more information, call Sinai Day Hospital - West Bloomfield Jewish Community Center 6600 West Maple Road West Bloomfield, MI 48322 PHYSICIAN REFERRAL SERVICE Joint Replacement Makes Climbing Stairs a Reality Sinai's Chief of Orthopedic Surgery Richard Krugel, M.D., performs orthopedic surgery. P auline Brown regrets 1 she waited a year to have her knees replaced with prosthetic devices. A victim of rheumatoid arthritis, she hoped the pain would just go away by itself. But it got worse. So when her physician pre- dicted she would only feel soreness for two weeks af- ter surgery, Brown fig- ured that was a pretty good deal. sinar*ig Mire: At 60, Mrs. Brown had the surgery on both knees with one procedure. "It was a miracle!" she recalls. "Three days after the operation, I walked 60 feet with the aid of a walk- er. A month after that, I was using a cane and go- ing up and down stairs. And all the pain was gone." That was two-and-a- half years ago. Today, she walks anywhere she wish- 1 - 8 0 0 - 2 4 8 - 3 6 2 7 es without a walking aid or the slightest hint of knee pain. Sinai Hospital's Sec- tion Chief of Orthopedic Surgery Richard Krugel, M.D., performed the surgery. Mrs. Brown is one of a chorus of severe rheumatoid arthritic pa- tients who have benefit- ted from his hip and knee replacements. The surgery has a 95 percent success rate, says Dr. Krugel. Thanks to hip and knee replacement surgery, "many more pa- tients are living fuller, pain-free lives." Dr. Krugel attributes this success rate to major improvements in pros- thetic materials and de- sign, precise surgical instrumentation, and an inpatient rehabilitation unit whose motto is, 'This is no place to rest!" Dr. Krugel also credits aggressive home and out- patient therapy programs with helping patients to get back on their feet. "We're all in this to- gether," says Dr. Krugel. "I provide medical exper- tise, our rehabilitation people provide the en- couragement and follow- up treatment and our patients provide the desire to improve their quality of life." And Mrs. Brown couldn't agree more. PECI AL ADVERTISEM • I 14800 West McNichols Detroit, MI 48235