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Joint Replacements | Last Active: Nov 30, 2025 | Replies (74)
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I am not doing Jiffy knee but NO. Different but similar approaches. They are both variants of the subvastus approach to TKR -- minimal incisions and avoid cutting tendons and muscles.
But I can't stress enough the importance of experience and experience doing the type of surgery that you are envisioning. So, for example, if a surgeon recently shifted to a Jiffy Knee approach from a traditional approach which cut the muscles and tendons, I would want the surgeon to have done thousands (at least multiple hundreds) of the Jiffy Knee procedure. I want the surgeon to be very experienced at the surgical approach I am going to have. I don't really count the experience he had at the old method.
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After experiencing the traditional knee replacement by a highly experienced and rated surgeon, I am searching for better ways for sure for knee #2.
And yes, experience is crucial... but are surgeons listening to the patient and their experiences? Seems like once cut, bye-bye...
Anything that will reduce the loss of tendon and muscle cuts has got to expedite healing and comfort of such a huge undertaking.
When I hear about people up and at 'em only 1 month after a Jiffy approach surgery, you bet I'm going to do it differently if I am brave enough for this second knee.
How did you reach your 1000th patient prior to those numbers? Someone has to be in the beginning. And I bet the learning-curve surgical team will be eyeballing the recovery process even better to make sure the outcomes are successful!
I don't ever want to hear at a 6 week check-up that "perhaps we will go down a half size or so at the next one and that we can do an MUA on you during the surgery on the first one" ever again! Can you imagine Physical Therapy dealing with a new replacement and an MUA at the same time for therapy? Once I started researching this, I cancelled my second replacement (he thought I could schedule second surgery at my 6 week check up- when my flexion was pretty non-existent and my leg was really bent- though I was religiously doing therapy 3x/wk and at home all the time). It's been quite the process.
Had high Healthgrades ratings, one of the top surgery centers in the country... I did my due diligence and followed everything. Went into it highly healthy (aside from arthritic knees), good weight and ready to follow directions...
Man- we got to do better.