1 RETIREMENT LIVING Health & Fitness TECHNOLOGY Incision Decision A 'hip' new surgical table rotates to reduce recovery time. Nicole Lupiloff Special to the Jewish News T "I USED TO WONDER IF MOM WAS LONELY NOW SHE HAS MORE FRIENDS THAN I DO." U r . your mom moves to The Park at Trowbridge, hen you won't have to worry about her being lonely anymore. She'll be too busy rediscovering the things she loves to do. See for yourself why seniors living at The Park at Trowbridge experience an invigorating sense of independence, freedom and optimism. Call today! I Your story continues here. Pite YC1/ieh at Trowbridge 24 111 Civic Center Drive Southfield, MI 4 80 33 For more information or to visit, call today! (248) 352-0208 I HORI ZON BAY RETIREMENT LIVING' www.horizonbay.com 15.55480 5570 Monroe Street • Sylvania, OH • 419-8242114 42 December 3 • 2009 iN he surgical tables have turned. A new, rotating, car- bon composite surgical table now available at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak is dramatically reduc- ing hospital stays and recovery times for those needing a hip replacement. The high-tech table enables the physi- cian to perform minimally invasive surgery resulting in a smaller incision, less tissue trauma and less pain. The unique hip and knee arthro- plasty surgical table, called the HANA table, allows hyperextension and Dr. James Verner and James Deutchman external rotation during hip replace- look at Beaumont's HANA table. ment, decreasing the average hospital stay to two to four days compared to accident, he needed that stability after the conventional three to six days, and months of therapies and tending to cuts recovery time to two to six weeks as other injuries through 2008. opposed to two to four months. Deutchman, who says he carefully "This new piece of equipment sur- walked down stairs and has used a cane passes other conventional tables during since May, eventually started walking anterior approach to hip replacement less and had an MRI done last summer. surgery,' says James Verner, M.D., joint The MRI showed bone nearly grind- replacement orthopedic surgeon at ing against other bone. By Sept. 2, Dr. Beaumont, Royal Oak."This table can Verner explained the anterior approach help my patients return to an active life- to Deutchman and performed the hip style faster — something we want for all surgery on the HANA table Sept. 18. our patients:' "I was dangling my legs over the bed The table allows the surgeon to posi- that night and walking with a walker the tion the patient in such a way that no next day;' says Deutchman, a real estate musdes are cut, leaving a four to five- developer and president of Temple Beth inch incision, compared to the usual El in Bloomfield Township."I did physi- incision of 10 to 12 inches. The HANA cal therapy the day after and was home table minimizes trauma under the skin two days after my surgery, even able during anterior hip replacement proce- to walk the stairs once per day with a dures. Surgeons reach the hip joint from crutch. This is a marvelous, straight-for- the front of the hip as opposed to the ward way to get yourself back to shape in side or back, allowing work to be done a reasonable time' through the natural interval between the Deutchman has had no hip pain since muscles. his surgery or during therapy. He says that "This state-of-the-art table allows while his jogging days are behind him, he the option of cradling the top of the hopes — and plans — to return to the thigh bone, the femur bone, and lifting lifestyle he had before his accident and it sufficiently enough to introduce new looks forward to walking without pain. implants without the risk of fractur- Hip replacement surgery is the sec- ing the bone says Dr. Verner. "If you go ond most common joint replacement between musdes instead of cut them, procedure behind knee replacement. those side and back tissues remain Beaumont, Royal Oak is one of the undisturbed and have immediate stabil- highest volume hospitals for knee and ity after surgery' hip replacements in the United States. One patient who benefited from this Approximately 2,400 were performed by new technology was James Deutchman, Beaumont surgeons in 2008. I 1 59, of Franklin. Limping because of his right hip and in constant discom- Nicole Lupiloff is the public relations intern fort after an August 2007 automobile at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak.