“I had a total replacement of my right hip performed by Dr. Aric Christal and his team. After receiving the new hip, I spent one night recovering at the Swedish Hospital in Edmonds, WA. I have had a number of surgeries in my 71 years, often with hospital stays...
I wanted to write a post about postoperative pain. However, the only prior experience I’d had was a few knee arthroscopies – which, while not nothing, do not rank very high on my orthopedic procedure pain scale. So, as my children would say, I had no “street...
WELCOME TO A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE! For our patients (and us!), effecting a healthy change in lifestyle is a daunting challenge. It can be overwhelming to confront a lifetime’s worth of habits and create real change. It’s also hard to find motivation sometimes when we...
PAIN FROM KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS Pain as a result of knee arthritis is a common condition that affects many patients referred to us at Northwest Pain Management. While total knee replacement is the definitive treatment for end-stage knee arthritis, many of the patients...
