Page 19 - The Pink Hip Kit Handbook

Joshua D. Harris, MD Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery Institute for Academic Medicine, Huston Methodist Hospital “The nice thing with a postless system is that it truly prevents skin and nerve damage to perineum. Hip arthroscopy typically takes from 1-2 hours to perform...and large amounts of pressure is applied to the perineum area that can be associated with skin injury and nerve injury and can happen as high as 30-35%. If you can eliminate the post, you can actually reduce that complication to the perineum down to 0%.” Carlos Suarez-Ahedo, MD, Sports Medicine, Hip Preservation Surgery, Arthroscopy, Orthopaedics & Trauma Hospital Medica Sur- Mexico City “As an Orthopedic Surgeon specializing in Hip Preservation surgery I’ve been using the Pink Hip Kit for Hip Arthroscopy and Total Hip replacements. The technology in the Pink Pad material eliminates movement during procedures. Traction is one of the main key components to performing hip arthroscopy successfully. With this device, you can be very confident in knowing that the traction during the procedure will be maintained. Another advantage is that by eliminating the perineal post, there is no risk for skin or nerve damage. It also enables me to move the hip joint freely during a femoroplasty, even in the most challenging cases.” Eric C. Makhni, MD / MBA, Sports Medicine, Orthopedic Surgery Team Physician, Detroit Lions “Without having the post in the way it’s far easier to manipulate the C-arm and get the view that we want perfectly so now we can get a very thorough osteocondeplasty of the femoral head neck junction. It’s made our lives a lot easier, booth from a quality perspective and a technique perspective.” 19 Justin J. Mitchell, MD Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Surgery Gundersen La Crosse Campus, WI “If the patient does develop complications such as groin numbness or irritation to the skin about the inner thigh around the genital or groin region, those conversations post- operatively are difficult, even if you’ve had the pre-operative conversation describing what actually can happen. No patient thinks that it’s really going to happen to them and no provider likes to have those conversations. That conversation in my practice has been completely eliminated by using the Pink Hip Kit and that has been a benefit to both myself and my patients. Now we can focus on recovery and rehabilitation as opposed to recovery from complications that are related to the post.”