News Alert!
Dr. Kellum is in the headlines again today….this time, he’s calling out the trends he’s seeing around knee pain.
Did you know total knee arthroplasty procedures in the United States are projected to grow 85% to 1.26 million annually by 2030?
That’s according to peer-reviewed research published by Sloan, Premkumar, and Sheth in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (2018).
And for the first time in U.S. medical history, patients younger than 65 are projected to represent as much as 62% of all knee replacements by 2030, according to research presented at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2023 annual meeting.
The trend has surfaced a question that orthopedic surgeons increasingly hear from active patients in their 50s and 60s: Is there a way to keep my natural knee?
Dr. Ethan Kellum, MD, fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon, sports medicine specialist, and a team physician for the NFL’s Tennessee Titans, has built his Franklin, Tennessee practice around answering precisely that question. His approach, what he calls “surgery-sparing protocols”, relies on regenerative orthopedic treatments including platelet-rich plasma (PRP), bone marrow concentrate (BMC), and alpha-2-macroglobulin (A2M) injections to address joint pain and arthritis at the root, rather than replacing the joint outright.
Read more about Dr. Kellum’s projections below:
