Chapters Transcript Video Coral Springs Woman Walking Again After Two Hip Replacements My name is Mariola Barham. I am a market manager. I achieve always what I wanted to be financial specialist and to be very good banker. So I can say that I achieved it because I was very focused on my career. I am originally from Poland. So forgive my accent before I moved to Florida. I live in New York, New Jersey. In 1994 I moved to Florida and I love Florida. I had my son here and I have little granddaughter e eight years old. She called me Bob, not grandma. So that's in Poland. Always Fridays. She sleeps over, we watch movies and Saturday we go for breakfast and when its weather is nice and cool, we go to the beach and do something, you know, like walking on the beach. I walk a lot. I love to walk. And last July, I start feeling more pain in my left hip. I couldn't function. I even had to take a leave of absence at my job. So currently still I am on leave of absence because of, of my situation. Hi, I'm Alex go and I'm an orthopedic surgeon at Baptist South orthopedic care. When I first met MS Barton, she presents to my office with pain in her left hip only. And on her initial evaluation, she had bone on bone arthritis in her left hip. When they took the X ray. Doctor G told me the other hip is also starting to have the bone on bone. So eventually, but nobody could predict when the surgery is gonna be on the second hip. He said, let's take care of the left hip and then depend how you feel we go. That side. Mariola was a good candidate for a total hip replacement because she exhausted conservative management. She had bone on bone arthritis and she continued to have pain on a day to day basis, which was interfering with her quality of life. The total hip replacement essentially is like a change on your tire. What we're doing is changing the arthritic cartilage in the hip or the knee and we're replacing it with metal and plastic. I would say in my career, I've probably gone close to about 300 to 400 total hip replacements. Mario's first total hip was performed at the hospital. Uh, she was discharged the same day and after the opening of the Cooperman Medical Arts Pavilion, she had her other hip performed here again on a same day basis. I just look at him and my tears were falling from my, from my eyes and I said, oh my God, I pray. He said, we're gonna help you. So I felt I had the confident that he would help me. And I said, doctor, I trust you. I say, wow, what a beautiful facility. He said you're going to have your surgery here on the third floor. I said, really, I don't need to go to hospital. I was actually relieved that I don't need to go to the regular hospital only to have it there. Everybody was very friendly patients should come to Baptist health orthopedics for their care because we have a all encompassing team with anesthesiologists, physical therapists and clinical staff that are all focused on ensuring the highest quality of care. I think the benefits of performing total hip and total knee same day surgery at the Medical Arts Pavilion is to ensure the highest quality care with staff that are focused solely on same day discharge educating and counseling the patients on what to look for. Probably three hours later. After this surgery, I was able to go home probably in a week, 10 days. I walked without the walk up and I said, ok, I can do it. So every day was better and better and better. Mario is doing great. Now, after the hip replacement, she's back being active and playing tennis and golf. I didn't have to go to physical therapy. I was doing some exercises that they gave me what to do every day. I was so familiar with the exercises then for me, it was just repetition. I feel amazing. You see me driving my car and back to my normal life. I praised Dr Goffman. He brought my life back to me. He is my hero. Created by
