Complications from elbow replacements?
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For those of us who have gone through the elbow replacement process, I am wondering how many of you have had complicatrions and which complications. Has any one needed a revision and how did that go? If you didn't choose a revision and left it as is, how did that work out?
18 months after my R elbow replacement, I am suddenly having more "noise" in my elbow, even on minor movements in the braces, which I have been wearing for over a year to provide more stability to my elbow. Then it started locking in a flexed position from time to time while carrying some weight (< 5 pounds of course!) From the beginning after this surgery, I was having a flop I couldn't control of 30-40 degrees to the outside of my body while in the flexed position. My doctor called this a varus-vagus instability issue and said most replacements were supposed to have 7-10 degrees of movement side to side, but he wasn't sure why this was more because we used a component he was less familiar with due to my allergy to cobalt and chromium and a need for a all-titanium prosthesis. . I did gain full range of motion and no pain from the surgery, so we just thought this was a anomaly that I would live with and I was told to keep wearing my braces to stabilize it. Now, fast forward 1 1/2 years and the anomaly has become a problem causing what my doctors calls : "joint failure". HE THINKS SOME OF THE BUSHINGS HAVE MOVED OR BROKEN OFF, CAUSING THE METAL ON METAL SQUEAKING AND JOINT LOCKING i AM EXPERIENCING NOW.
has this happened to anyone else? The recommended treatment is a revision surgery which m
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