Cedar Valley Medical Specialists, PC

Jay P Ginther, MD

Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

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Patient education library

Orthopaedic information you can trust from Your Orthopaedic Connection, a service provided by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

Recommended Web sites

• American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons
  Information on all aspects of orthopedics by the main educational organization of orthopedic surgeons. I have been a member since 1982.

• Arthroscopy Association of North America
  AANA is the largest educational association of arthroscopic surgeons. I have been a member since 1984. This web site deals specifically with issues of arthroscopy - minimally invasive surgery of knee, shoulder, ankle, elbow.

• Avoiding Blood Transfusions in Total Hip and Total Knee Surgery
  Procrit is a medication which can be taken before total joint surgery to raise the hemoglobin level in a person's blood. This substance (erythropoetin) has been used for 30 years in other diseases. I participated in the FDA study which resulted in approval of this drug for total joint surgery. The site also has a very good description of total knee and total hip surgery.

• Bone Graft Substitutes Accelerate Fracture Healing
  I use bone graft substitutes to fill defects and accelerate healing in difficult fractures. This site maintained by Wright Medical Technologies describes these very usefull materials.

• Cedar Valley Medical Specialists, PC
  Information about all specialities and specialists in CVMS. We serve the Cedar Valley area with offices in Waterloo and outreach clinics and branch offices in most surrounding counties. I have been a member since our beginning on 1 January 1995.

• Herbal and Botanical Agents used as Medicines
  Excelent information about 135 herbs and botanical agents used as medicines and suppliments including the conditions they are used to treat, clinical properties and uses, potential interactions with other medicines, and adverse effects. This site is maintained by the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

• Herbal Medicines and Dietary Suppliments Interactions with Surgery and
  This site discusses commonly used herbal medicines which can interact with medicines routinely used during surgery or can cause excessive bleeding during surgery. Further links from this site to other information about Complimentary and Alternative Medicine therapies.

• Osteoporosis Information
  This web site discusses osteoporosis, bone density testing, risk factors for oteoporosis, and treatment with Fosamax, one of the effective medicines for osteoporosis. It is provided by Merck, makers of Fosamax.

• Patient Safety Information
  The AAOS Patient Safety main site and links to forty other patient safety sites.

• Total Joint Replacements
  This site gives information about most of the specific implants I use for total hip, total knee, base of thumb replacements. It is maintained by Wright Medical Technology.

• Your Orthopaedic Connection
  Direct link to the information available from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Hundreds of items in booklet, brochure, fact sheet and video formats. These are also available through the Patient Information section of my site.

• Your Orthopaedic Connection Newsletter
  Quarterly newsletter from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons listing new information available online.

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