Patients know they can look to Baptist Hospital East as an award-winning leader in orthopedic care. Using the latest techniques and treatments, surgeons perform more total joint replacement procedures -- such as knee and hip replacements -- at Baptist East than any other hospital in Kentucky.

Services offered for orthopedic problems include:

• Inpatient care for orthopedic patients
• Preparation for total joint replacement surgery
• Computer-navigated surgery
• Minimally-invasive total joint surgery
• Comprehensive rehabilitation services for those who qualify 
• Physical therapy services - acute care, rehab and outpatient 
• Arthritis education
• Managing swelling through the Lymphedema Clinic

Health and medical information about orthopedic problems:

• Knee know-how for women
• Make your home safe from falls
• Protect your ankles
  
  
• Surgeries, procedures and tests
• • Bone fracture repair
  • Bone graft
  • Bone marrow transplant
  • Bunion removal
  • Carpal tunnel repair
  • Club foot repair
  • Hip joint replacement
  • Knee arthroscopy
  • Knee joint replacement
  • Lumbar spinal surgery  
  • Replantation of digits
  • Shoulder separation
  • Spinal fusion
  • Spinal surgery (cervical)
    
    
• Cirugías, procedimientos y exámenes
  
  
• In-depth reports
• • Carpal tunnel syndrome
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Osteoporosis
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
    
    
• Care guides  
• • Arthritis
  • Low back pain

The Baptist Hospital East Gift Shop offers colorful cast covers, arm slings and crutch pads.

For more information about orthopedic services at Baptist Hospital East, or for physician referral, call the Baptist East Information Center at (502) 897-8131.

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