Biloine W. Young and Robin Young

Articles by Biloine W. Young and Robin Young

The Ultra Patient

Who ARE these people? They are your ultra-patients. Like Ellen Miller, who climbed Everest, Nuptse and Lhotse after her hip replacement, or Roy Wyatt who climbed Kilimanjaro at age 75 after his hip surgery or Scotland’s John Matthews or Don Healey who climbed Mount Everest courtesy of an HSS installed hip.

Aug 18, 2015

Leg Reversed and Reattached

Rotationplasty puts the foot where the knee joint used to be with the heel in front, toes pointed back—rotated in other words. For 10-year-old Dugan Smith this was the surgery that got him back on the baseball diamond. Read on about this rare and amazing procedure.

Apr 11, 2011