Replacing Damaged Elbows

Like hips and knees, the elbow joint can be replaced. Its not always for arthritis.

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Agrowing population of older adults may be partly responsible for an increase in elbow replacement surgeries for fractures of the bone near the elbow. Older adults are more likely than younger people to break a bone from a fall, including the lower end of the upper arm bone (called the distalhumerus).
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