David Gifford, PA-C

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  Proliance Bone and Joint Urgent Care Is OPEN!

  ORTHOPEDIC URGENT CARE OPENS IN TUKWILA  Proliance Bone and Joint Urgent Care is the only orthopedic urgent care in the Puget Sound region.  [TUKWILA, WA, JANUARY 9, 2019] — Proliance Orthopedic Associates, a Division of Proliance Surgeons, is pleased to announce the opening of Proliance Bone and Joint Urgent Care located at 150 Andover Park …

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  How to Stay Holiday Healthy

  Wondering how to stay healthy this holiday season? Looking for tips on your diet or exercise routine to build healthy habits? The doctors at Proliance Orthopedic Associates can help you learn more about the best practices for your health. We provide a wide variety of orthopedic services for our patients, specializing in joint replacement, sports …

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  Healing Hip Pain: Q&A with Dr. Haloman

  Dr. Haloman serves a large role as POA’s in-house hip preservation specialist, within our knee and hip services, where he treats a variety of ailments through arthroscopic surgery of the hip, shoulder, and knee. After several months practicing at POA, we realized it was time for a check-up with our newest orthopedic surgeon. Catch up with Dr. Haloman …

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  Know the outcomes of your total joint implant system

  Several factors affect the outcome of joint replacement surgery. Most important is the skill and experience of your surgeon. Next is the patient and his/her motivation. Thirdly, is the implant. There are joint registries around the world which track the performance of various implant systems. For our anterior hip replacements, we primarily use a Pinnacle …

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  Hip and Knee Surgeons’ position paper on use of stem cell therapies for advanced osteoarthritis

  In the June 2019 issue of the Journal of Arthroplasty, the American Association of Hip and Knee surgeons, The Knee Society, and the Hip Society published a position paper on the use of stem cell therapies for advanced arthritis of the knee and hip. They all state that there is no data to justify the …

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  Recovery from Knee Replacement: 2 Perspectives (Part 5)

  I had the opportunity to experience recovery from a TKA through the eyes of a close family member, who I, as a joint replacement surgeon was the primary caregiver. This experience gave me a new appreciation of what our patients experience in the weeks after TKR. I will break this up into segments: pre-op, day of …

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