WAUKESHA, WI- ProHealth Care will broadcast a surgery live via the Internet during a webcast at 10 a.m., Wednesday, May 17. The surgery will be a total knee replacement procedure at Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital. This is ProHealth Care's first surgical webcast and it will kickoff a series of live surgeries ProHealth Care is planning throughout 2006.

The knee is the largest, strongest and heaviest joint in the body and carries almost half of the body's weight. If arthritis, injury or wear-and-tear wears away the cartilage in the knee, total knee replacement often becomes necessary to relieve pain and resume regular activities Orthopedic surgeon, Timothy Schultz, MD, will perform the procedure while T. Scott Stanwyck, MD, orthopedic surgeon, serves as moderator to explain the procedure and answer questions that viewers e-mail.

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Orthopaedics: The Orthopaedic Specialty Center at Woodwinds Health Campus in Woodbury, Minnesota will host a demonstration of the most state-of-the-art approach to total knee replacement during a live surgery on the Internet. The web cast will be live from Woodwinds Health Campus, a member of the HealthEast Care System, on May 16, at 3:00 p.m. CDT, (20:00 UTC)

During a total knee replacement, plastic and metal parts are used to replace injured or damaged parts of the knee. Until now, a doctor had to rely on his or her experience to remove bone, replace it with implanted material and align the plastic or metal material with the bone. Since each patient's knee is different, this can prove to be challenging. Computer-assisted knee replacements offer better outcomes for patients and more accuracy for doctors.

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Orthopaedics: Wright Medical Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: WMGI), a global orthopaedic medical device company, will sponsor two live webcasts detailing tendon and ligament applications of the Company's GRAFTJACKET® Regenerative Tissue Matrix in the foot and ankle. The live webcasts will take place Wednesday, May 3 at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time and again at 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time. These events will also be archived on this site for twelve months. These webcasts are the second in a series designed to educate foot and ankle surgeons on the versatility and potential clinical benefits of this exciting technology.

 

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Methodist Healthcare will host a live surgical Webcast at the Methodist North Hospital Total Joint Center on Thursday, April 27, 2006, 4 p.m., CST, showcasing a total knee replacement, with an incision measuring only 3 to 5 inches in length. The Webcast will feature Michael Lynch, M.D., performing the surgery, with Blake Ragsdale, M.D., narrating the surgery. Both orthopaedic surgeons are with Memphis Orthopaedic Group.

In addition to watching Dr. Lynch perform the live knee replacement surgery, viewers will learn more about total knee replacement surgery and hear from a patient who has undergone total knee replacement surgery with Dr. Lynch as their surgeon. Viewers will also be able to email questions to the surgeon who is narrating the surgery.

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