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Welcome to Week 13!

This week Dr Axel, co-founder of the myrecovery app, was joined by Dr. David Love to discuss the different types of surgical approaches that can be used in hip replacement surgery.

Dr. David Love is a Melbourne-trained Orthopaedic Surgeon. He currently has an appointment with The Royal Melbourne Hospital where he has an active role in teaching training Medical staff and the on call trauma roster.

Please note that this interview was recorded before Melbourne went into a second lockdown phase.

For more information about Dr. David Love, see his website: https://melbournehipandkneesurgeon.co...

Until next week, stay well, stay safe and keep up the good work!

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TIME STAMPS:

02:47 - What is the situation right now in Australia in terms of coronavirus and getting back to surgery etc?

08:34 - What is a surgical approach? What does that entail and mean?

12:25 - What kind of things drive the decision making process around how or why one might choose one approach over another for an individual patient?

16:45 - Moving away from precautions and allowing patients to do more

18:39 - Speaking very generally, is there any difference in your experience in post operative recovery between the main different approaches?

24:55 - We get a fair amount of questions about minimally invasive surgery, how does that relate to the different approaches?

27:03 - Scarring - In your experience is there any variation in scarring within the different approaches?

28:34 - Does having a second hip replacement mean that you have to have it done using the same approach as the first?

31:45 - In terms of the activities that I will be able to do after hip replacement surgery, is there any variation within the different approaches?

33:03 - Is there any difference (generally speaking) in terms of the longevity of the new hip within the different approaches?

34:34 - Is there anything else that you would add that you would have touched on with your patients?

Thank you to Cosmo Sheldrake for letting us use his wonderful song 'The Fly', for more of Cosmo's see his YouTube page:    / comsosheldrake  

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