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Baton Rouge, LA – Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center will broadcast total knee replacement surgery live on www.OR-Live.com on September 21, 2006 at 6:00 pm CDT.

R. Bryan Griffith, Jr., MD will perform the total knee replacement procedure for this web cast. Dr. Griffith earned his medical degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans and completed his residency in General Surgery and Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Texas in Houston. Dr. Griffith completed his fellowship in knee surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas. Dr. Griffith has been in private practice of Orthopaedic Surgery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana since 1983.

On Thursday, September 14, at 6:30 p.m. EDT, Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, PA will broadcast a live total knee replacement procedure on www.OR-Live.com featuring the Zimmer Gender Solutions High-Flex Knee, the first knee replacement shaped to fit a woman's anatomy.

Shawnee Mission Medical Center will showcase a new, less invasive approach to hip replacement during a live surgical Webcast Wednesday, September 20, at 7 p.m. CDT (Sept 21 @ 00:00 UTC) on www.OR-Live.com

During the Webcast, Scott Cook, MD, will perform the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing (BHR) technique. Cook is one of just 40 doctors in the United States trained to do the procedure.

Please join our internationally-renowned panelists who together bring you this Web-based Science Forum on GRAFTJACKET® Regenerative Tissue Matrix and the science, mechanical testing, histology and clinical experience for rotator cuff tears in the shoulder. Broadcast LIVE to the Post Graduate Education Centre , City Hospital Campus, Nottingham University Hospitals, Nottingham, UK Friday, 8th of September at 4:00 pm UK Time (17:00 Central European Time)

Spine: Over 700,000 vertebral compression fractures – broken spinal bones - occur annually in the United States. Many of these fractures result from untreated osteoporosis, and vertebral fractures can cause severe pain for nearly a third of people with the condition. On Wednesday, June 7, Marshfield Clinic physicians on staff at Saint Joseph's Hospital will discuss a leading surgical treatment for spinal compression fractures called percutaneous vertebroplasty. The program, featuring a pre-taped surgery of a vertebral compression fracture patient, will be webcast from 4 – 5 p.m. central standard time. (21:00 UTC) Expert commentary about the procedure will be provided by Fergus McKiernan, MD, metabolic bone disease specialist; Thomas Faciszewski, MD, orthopaedic surgeon; and Sanjay Rao, MD, neurological surgeon.

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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.

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.