Jan 26, 2022 | News, Orthopedics, Patient Stories
For Joanne Karas, every step meant pain. Born with a congenital hip defect, she underwent surgery at 12 months old and she felt fine until she reached her 40s. After an initial hip replacement, the pain returned and one leg had become noticeably shorter than the...
Aug 3, 2021 | News, Orthopedics
CHICAGO, IL – August 3, 2021 – Weiss Memorial Hospital announces Thomas A. McNally, MD, as the medical director of the Spine Center at the Chicago Center for Orthopedics and Robotic-Assisted Surgery. To complement this new leadership, the community hospital has also...
Feb 16, 2021 | News, Orthopedics, Patient Stories
Darcy Jo Wood, 34—billed as “a little lady with a BIG voice”—is not used to an idle life. The professional singer, musician, actress, and producer, usually tours more than 200 days a year with her Chicago-based group, “The Lovettes”, in rollicking retrospective...
Nov 1, 2020 | News, Orthopedics, Patient Stories
Dear Dr. Shehan, I believe you must inspire Excellence… My sister, Kathleen W. was admitted to Weiss on Thursday, July 30 for a complete hip revision performed by Henry Finn M.D. I would like to share with you our experience…consider yourself blessed with the staff...
Nov 1, 2020 | News, Orthopedics, Patient Stories
“Did you see the video of me biking for the first time in 25 years?” asks Rob McClean enthusiastically. His question comes just a few months after a complicated knee-fusion-disassembly surgery finally allowed him to bend his knee–something he could not do for more...
Nov 1, 2020 | News, Orthopedics, Patient Stories
“I’m a person who is not limited in what I want to do,” said Ondrea Tye, 63, a City of Los Angeles Urban Planner. But when a condition called arthrofibrosis afflicted her knee, she experienced some limitations. “My quality of life suffered. I could no longer do much...
