Community Insight Presented by AMITA Health AMITA Health offers state-of-the-art joint replacement Joint replacement procedures count over 100 years of operative history and we've come a very long way from 1822 London when the first excision joint arthroplasty was performed. Just consider what AMITA Health's state-of-the-art Center for Advanced Joint Replacement in Hoffman Estates offers in terms of extraordinary technology including the Stryker MAKO robotic arm for joint replacement surgery. AMITA Health St. Alexius Medical Center tire second floor and $2 ate the million for the brand new facility that offers everything a joint replacement patient needs in one convenient location: pre-op holding. surgery, recovery, patient rooms, therapy, a car simulator, kitchen simulator, Dr. Paul Nourbash a simulated bathroom environment, and even stairs that go nowhere. Patients can and be told they can no longer have joint simulate their home environment before replacement surgery, or they have to wait they leave the hospital to make sure that more than a year before the cardiologist will they will be safe at home. The Replacement is completely dedicated to University of Illinois and Indiana University their patients. "The OR, recovery room undertook his joint replacement fellowship and floor nursing staff will only be caring training at Rush. His vast experience is not for joint replacement patients," explained uncommon at the Center for Advanced Joint Medical Director Paul Nourbash, MD. "At Replacement. "Many of our surgeons have other hospitals, healthy joint replacement spent an extra year beyond residency training patients coming in for elective surgery are to be a specialist in joint replacement often mixed with general hospital patients surgery," he explained, "and our team of who are frequently ill." Who is a good candidate for joint replacement? protocols involving the latest information According to Dr. Nourbash, if you have to optimize patient care." The innovative disabling hip, knee or shoulder pain that center includes operating rooms designed restricts movement, adversely affects your using virtual reality equipment and a team quality of life, and disturbs your sleep of dedicated orthopedic surgeons who have -you are a good candidate especially if worked with the hospital over two years to conservative care like weight loss, exercise create and help manage it. and medications failed to relieve your pain. Delaying joint replacement is inadvisable of experience to give my patients the best for a number of reasons. "The patient can possible care that I can give them," he said. clear them for surgery." Dr. Nourbash, who trained at Northwestern, Center for Advanced Joint physicians also helped develop the care "I use the knowledge, skills and 22 years become de-conditioned and suffer other medical conditions like heart attack or stroke excellent, highly skilled, joint replacement if they are not active," Dr Nourbash warned. surgeons and a state-of-the-art center in "The joint can become stiff and deformed, the suburbs so patients need not travel into complicating the surgical reconstruction. the city to have the best possible care for Some patients delay surgery too long only to their joint replacement experience. Learn develop an unrelated medical condition that more about the Center for Advanced Joint makes them no longer a surgical candidate. Replacement Surgery at AMITA Health St. I have had many patients who delayed Alexius Medical Center by calling (833) having surgery only to have a heart attack NU-JOINT or visit www.amitahealth.org/ AMITA St. Alexius Medical Cente has joint AMITA T HEALTH* Community Insight Presented by AMITA Health AMITA Health offers state-of-the-art joint replacement Joint replacement procedures count over 100 years of operative history and we've come a very long way from 1822 London when the first excision joint arthroplasty was performed. Just consider what AMITA Health's state-of-the-art Center for Advanced Joint Replacement in Hoffman Estates offers in terms of extraordinary technology including the Stryker MAKO robotic arm for joint replacement surgery. AMITA Health St. Alexius Medical Center tire second floor and $2 ate the million for the brand new facility that offers everything a joint replacement patient needs in one convenient location: pre-op holding. surgery, recovery, patient rooms, therapy, a car simulator, kitchen simulator, Dr. Paul Nourbash a simulated bathroom environment, and even stairs that go nowhere. Patients can and be told they can no longer have joint simulate their home environment before replacement surgery, or they have to wait they leave the hospital to make sure that more than a year before the cardiologist will they will be safe at home. The Replacement is completely dedicated to University of Illinois and Indiana University their patients. "The OR, recovery room undertook his joint replacement fellowship and floor nursing staff will only be caring training at Rush. His vast experience is not for joint replacement patients," explained uncommon at the Center for Advanced Joint Medical Director Paul Nourbash, MD. "At Replacement. "Many of our surgeons have other hospitals, healthy joint replacement spent an extra year beyond residency training patients coming in for elective surgery are to be a specialist in joint replacement often mixed with general hospital patients surgery," he explained, "and our team of who are frequently ill." Who is a good candidate for joint replacement? protocols involving the latest information According to Dr. Nourbash, if you have to optimize patient care." The innovative disabling hip, knee or shoulder pain that center includes operating rooms designed restricts movement, adversely affects your using virtual reality equipment and a team quality of life, and disturbs your sleep of dedicated orthopedic surgeons who have -you are a good candidate especially if worked with the hospital over two years to conservative care like weight loss, exercise create and help manage it. and medications failed to relieve your pain. Delaying joint replacement is inadvisable of experience to give my patients the best for a number of reasons. "The patient can possible care that I can give them," he said. clear them for surgery." Dr. Nourbash, who trained at Northwestern, Center for Advanced Joint physicians also helped develop the care "I use the knowledge, skills and 22 years become de-conditioned and suffer other medical conditions like heart attack or stroke excellent, highly skilled, joint replacement if they are not active," Dr Nourbash warned. surgeons and a state-of-the-art center in "The joint can become stiff and deformed, the suburbs so patients need not travel into complicating the surgical reconstruction. the city to have the best possible care for Some patients delay surgery too long only to their joint replacement experience. Learn develop an unrelated medical condition that more about the Center for Advanced Joint makes them no longer a surgical candidate. Replacement Surgery at AMITA Health St. I have had many patients who delayed Alexius Medical Center by calling (833) having surgery only to have a heart attack NU-JOINT or visit www.amitahealth.org/ AMITA St. Alexius Medical Cente has joint AMITA T HEALTH*