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Milestone THR Reached

A2M Therapy Gives Liz Pain-free Knees

Dr. Zehr a "Top Doc"

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Playing doubles with 2 new hips

"I had two hip replacements performed by Dr. Zehr within three months and after six weeks I was pain free and back playing tennis and golf several times each week.

"I can't say enough good things about Dr. Zehr and his very professional staff who cared for me during and after this procedure."

-Mike Paquette

Our website is full of testimonies like Mike's - patients who are living pain-free lives. You can read them here. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to send us photos and stories for our office "Wall of Fame." We invite you to share your success story too, just hit "Reply!"

Milestone 1000th
THR performed

Pioneering the direct anterior approach to total hip replacement in Southwest Florida, Dr. Zehr is pleased to announce he has reached a milestone with the successful completion of his 1000th THR using this method. The benefits of this minimally invasive approach are numerous. If you are living with debilitating hip pain which non-surgical treatments has not alleviated, we hope you'll consider this surgery by Southwest Florida's most experienced surgeon in this revolutionary approach to hip surgery.

Seminar Online

There are no live seminars scheduled, but we want to remind you that the entire educational seminar "Joint Arthritis - What's New, What Works" is available for viewing online, either in its entirety or in segments.

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Issue: #36

April 2015

In our February newsletter we introduced you to Liz Henuset who has experienced excellent results with a breakthrough treatment for knee osteoarthritis: alpha-2-macroglobulin therapy. We promised you her story and it is included below.

We are also pleased to announce the completion of the 1000th total hip replacement surgery using the direct anterior approach. Next month we will bring you the story of 82-year old Dr. David Criswell who had one hip replaced using the posterior approach and one using the anterior approach. He'll give you a first-hand account of the difference the right approach makes!

Finally, we send our best wishes to all of the mothers in our reading audience with the hope that you will enjoy a blessed Mother's Day.

Warm regards,

Robert J. Zehr, M.D.

Pain-free knees, thanks to A2M Therapy

"I am a 59 year old female and I have been suffering with pain in my knees for 2 1/2 years. I initially saw a doctor in March of 2012 and he operated on my knee for a meniscus tear. The surgery was successful as far as the repair, but I still had a lot of pain.

"That fall I was at the Mayo Clinic and they said that I should try a cortisone shot for the pain as there really wasn't anything else that could be done at that point. I had a cortisone shot done in Florida and its effectiveness lasted only 3 weeks and 2 days!

"I started a 3-week session of having OrthoVisc injected into my knee and that helped a little but the pain just got worse.I went back and asked the doctor if he would replace my knee. He told me to see Dr. Zehr.

"I saw Dr. Zehr immediately and he told me that I couldn't have a replacement yet. That the knee wasn't bad enough to warrant that. He gave me a cortisone shot and it immediately helped. I started an every-3-month regimen of injections and it helped tremendously.

"In August of 2014 Dr. Zehr told me of the new A2M Therapy. On December 31, 2014 I had the treatment. I left Dr. Zehr's office pain free and have been that way since.

"The A2M Therapy has improved the quality of my life immensely. I don't worry about the distance I will have to walk anymore or the number of steps I will have to go down on a staircase. The best part is that the therapy uses my own DNA and I don't have to have cortisone shots anymore!"

-Elizabeth Henuset

To read the medical research and explanation of how this amazing biologic treatment works, we have added this page to our website for your information.

Dr. Zehr named "Top Doc" for 11th consecutive year

Dr. Zehr has once again been named to Gulfshore Life Magazine's list of "Top Doctors" in Southwest Florida. He has earned this distinction every year since 2004. Gulfshore Life magazine partners with Castle Connolly Medical in New York to develop a list of only the top-tier doctors in each specialty - that is, those physicians most highly recommended in Collier, Lee and Charlotte counties each year. Only those physicians selected by Castle Connolly as one of America's Top Doctors are included on the local list.

The exhaustive process of naming a Castle Connolly Top Doctor begins with thousands of interviews. Because the Castle Connolly honors are determined by their peers, surveys are sent to physicians and healthcare professionals. In addition to mail and online surveys, the Castle Connolly physician-led research team makes thousands of phone calls each year, talking with leading specialists, chairs of clinical departments and vice presidents of medical affairs, seeking to identify top specialists for most diseases and procedures.

Dr. Zehr was one of the first orthopaedic surgeons in Southwest Florida to perform the minimally invasion direct anterior approach to total hip replacement and continues to lead the local medical community in hip and knee replacement surgery, complex revision joint surgery, shoulder reconstruction, arthroscopy and skeletal tumor and trauma reconstruction. With over 25 years of orthopaedic experience in complex joint reconstruction and rehabilitation, he is one of the area's most experienced orthopaedic surgeons.

Stay Informed

In our February newsletter we repeated the good news about A2M Therapy for knee osteoarthritis. Be sure to add news@zehrcenter.com to your address book so you don't miss future issues. You can read past issues in our archive.

Our website is chock-full of educational information too, and we are constantly adding short articles to our blog, where you can choose to read about hips, knees, general orthopaedics and health or catch up on our latest news.