Chicago Plastic Surgeon Makes Appearance on Popular Show, The Doctors

Chicago Plastic Surgeon, Dr. Kotis, joined The Doctors to demonstrate a cutting-edge procedure in alleviating pain caused my rheumatoid arthritis.

2011-06-08

CHICAGO, IL, June 08, 2011 (Press-News.org) Dr. Kotis, a Chicago plastic surgeon, made an appearance on the popular daytime television show The Doctors. He and the show's host, Dr. Drew Ordon, scrubbed in to demonstrate a cutting-edge procedure that can end the pain and limitations caused by rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis.

In the May 24th airing of The Doctors take on Chicago, Dr. Kotis performed a surgery to replace a thumb joint which has been worn down on a woman due to a terrible car accident. The damaged joint caused the bones in the thumb to rub together causing severe rheumatoid as well as osteoarthritis.

The cutting-edge procedure involved taking out the unhealthy bone and replacing the small thumb joint with a prosthetic implant. This will allow the patient to do all the things she did before the accident rendered her incapable, including playing with her daughter, doing daily activities and returning to her bowling league team.

Dr. John A. Kotis, leading Chicago hand surgeon, mentioned that after the patient has a few weeks of physical therapy, "she'll be out on the golf course or back to bowling- doing everything she was doing before."

This injury appears more commonly in women than men. Dr. Kotis said on the show that osteoarthritis plagues women more than men on a 3:1 ratio. There are many reasons for this, including that women are more frequently picking up children as well as the changes in the fluctuation of the sex hormones estrogen and progesterone. These hormones have critical roles in the inflammatory response in addition to the overall regulation of the immune system.

About

Arlington Surgery Care Center in Arlington Heights, IL has been accredited by The Joint Commission which has surveyed this organization and found it to meet the requirements for the Office Based Surgery Accreditation Program. The Joint Commission is an independent, not-for-profit, national body that oversees the safety and quality of health care and other services provided in accredited organization. For additional information, please visit http://www.drkotis.com or contact Dr. Kotis' office directly at (847) 577.6400 or 3443 North Kennicott Ave., Arlington Heights, IL 60004.

ELSE PRESS RELEASES FROM THIS DATE:

Brown and Crouppen Welcomes FDA Study

2011-06-08

Metal-on-Metal ("MoM") hip replacements have come under scrutiny lately. On May 6, 2011, the Food and Drug Administration ordered 21 manufacturers of 145 different MoM hip replacements to study and report the outcomes of patients who have received these devices. Such a study is called a "postmarket surveillance study." Attorney Ron Brown, of St. Louis-based law firm Brown and Crouppen, welcomed the development saying, "I'm very glad to see the FDA's action on this." Recent years have seen growing concern in both the United States and ...

Smithsonian study: Stranding records are faithful reflection of live whale and dolphin populations

2011-06-08

Whales are the earth's largest creatures, yet they are incredibly hard to study in the open ocean. For decades scientists have used boats, aircraft and even high cliffs to conduct visual surveys and gather data on whale and dolphin populations. Today, these live surveys form the basis of our knowledge of these marine mammals—what species live where in the world, which ones tend to live together and how abundantly they are represented. Now, recent work by paleobiologist Nick Pyenson of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, has revealed a second, equally ...

Atlanta Perimeter Hotel Near Philips Arena Provides Close Accommodations to Fans Attending New Kids on the Block and Back Street Boys in Concert

2011-06-08

The Holiday Inn Express & Suites Atlanta Perimeter Hotel (North), near Perimeter Mall, provides close accommodations to the fans attending New Kids on the Block and Back Street Boys in concert. The show will take place on June 22, 2011 at Philips Arena in downtown Atlanta. It will feature members of both American vocal groups, who will performances of many of their music hit as well as and new joint songs, "Don't Turn Out the Lights" and "All in My Head". The two groups first appeared together in November, 2010 at the American Music Awards. The ...

Native ants use chemical weapons to turn back invading Argentine ants

2011-06-08

Argentine ants are taking over the world – or at least the nice temperate parts. They've spread into Mediterranean and subtropical climates across the globe in sugar shipments from Argentina, and no native ant species has been known to withstand their onslaught – until now. A group of Stanford University undergraduate students working on a class project have discovered that a native species, the plucky winter ant, has been using chemical warfare to combat the Argentine tide. The winter ants – named for their unusual ability to function in cold weather, rather than grind ...

Saxo Bank Launches Retail FX Trading Platform ForexTrading.com

2011-06-08

Saxo Bank, the online trading and investment specialist, has announced the launch of ForexTrading.com which will offer retail investors a select range of FX crosses and CFDs with variable spreads - as low as 0.8 pips. ForexTrading.com provides investors with a range of basic functionalities designed to make trading flexible and straightforward. ForexTrading.com is powered by Saxo Bank, which is renowned for aggregating liquidity from the world's leading FX dealers. ForexTrading.com gives traders the ability to trade in the world's most liquid currency pairs and global ...

Health care providers need training to recognize signs of domestic violence, says nursing expert

2011-06-08

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Despite billions of dollars spent on health care each year, the United States ranks 27th out of 33 developed countries for life expectancy at birth. Leading causes of infant mortality are complications related to pre-term birth or low birth weight-outcomes that have been linked with domestic violence. A University of Missouri researcher says a key factor in addressing this issue is preventing violence against mothers and children. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released "Healthy People 2020", a 10-year plan for improving the health ...

Dangerous and under the radar

2011-06-08

Montreal, June 7, 2011 – Sex work is unprotected, increasingly dangerous and needs to be decriminalized, according to a new report published in the Canadian Review of Sociology. Co-authored by Concordia University and University of Windsor researchers, the study calls for sweeping changes to sex work performed on and off the streets. "We must not only change our laws, we must also revamp our attitudes and implement policies that protect the social, physical and psychological rights of sex workers," says first author Frances Shaver, chair and professor in Concordia's ...

Macmillan Announces Line-Up of Macmillan's Big Mix 2011

2011-06-08

Macmillan has revealed the line-up for Macmillan's Big Mix 2011, featuring a number of acts including musicians, comedians, fashion designers and artists. The event will take place on Saturday 18 June across venues in Shoreditch. First lady of festivals and BBC Radio 1 DJ Edith Bowman will be gracing the decks on the night, playing her pick of the latest and greatest from the world of indie and alternative music. Edith, a long time supporter of Macmillan, said: "I love how Macmillan have put the Big Mix together - they've got everything in there from folk artists ...

Europcar Launches New freeDeliver Service

2011-06-08

Europcar, the leader in car hire services in Europe for both leisure and business users, just made car hire easier, with the launch of its new freeDeliver service. Now customers hiring a car for two days or more can sit back and Europcar will deliver it to their door as well as collect it when their trip is finished - at no extra charge. The new, unique, service reflects Europcar's sustained commitment to bring travellers added value on every booking. freeDeliver offers Europcar customers the convenience of free car hire delivery and collection to their home address, ...

Development of a FRET sensor for real-time imaging of intracellular redox dynamics

2011-06-08

In work published in the June 2011 issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine, Kolossov, Spring and their co-investigators - a multidisciplinary team within the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois - have transferred the concept of redox-sensitive Green Fluorescent Proteins (GFPs) to a quantitative Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) imaging platform. For the FRET-based sensors, a change in redox induces a conformational change in a redox-sensitive switch that links two fluorescent proteins (the donor and acceptor), changing their distance, which ...

LAST 30 PRESS RELEASES:

Bluey’s dad offered professorial chair in archaeology at Griffith University

Beyond small data limitations: Transfer learning-enabled framework for predicting mechanical properties of aluminum matrix composites

Unveiling non-thermal catalytic origin of direct current-promoted catalysis for energy-efficient transformation of greenhouse gases to valuable chemicals