Category: Innovations & Trends

New Research on Bisphosphonate Use To Help Extend the Life of Knee and Hip Implants

Bisphosphonates are commonly used to treat patients, typically postmenopausal women with osteoporosis or those men and women taking steroid medications, because these drugs help slow the rate of bone loss. There are four bisphosphonates currently approved for use in Canada: alendronate (Fosamax ®), etidronate (Didrocal ®), risedronate (Actonel ®) and zoledronic acid (Aclasta®). Also available [...]

Nurse is grateful for stryker ceramic technology

Special Educational Feature Christine Bartholomew was out running one day when she noticed she had a problem. She was trying to lose some weight after having her youngest child, a boy named Alex. It had been over 8 years since the birth and she hadn’t lost weight. “So I started running, very high impact aerobic [...]

Nurse back on her feet thanks to minimally invasive surgery

Special Educational Feature Christine Ricciardi is a people person. You see it immediately in the sparkle in her eyes and the zest for life she radiates. But this professional nurse and full time aerobics instructor was not always able to enjoy her family and friends the way she can today. “I was depressed for many [...]

Fred Funk gets his lifestyle of playing competitive golf back

Special Educational Feature I’ve been playing at the highest level of professional golf since 1989 and it’s been a great career. I am really excited to be working with the Stryker team because I have had a history with my knee. In 2008, I had a surgery which left me bone on bone on [...]

Casing the joint: Knee and hip replacements top wish list of arthritis surgeries

(NC)-Like a cresting tsunami, Baby Boomers – people born between the years 1946 and 1964 – are poised to hit Canada’s healthcare sector with unprecedented demands for care of arthritis and arthritis-related conditions. Today, one in every six Canadian adults is affected by arthritis, among them rheumatoid arthritis which is a debilitating and aggressive arthritis [...]