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Testimonials
Spencer Brent
is a patient of Dr. Andrew Hodge
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Dear Dr. Hodge,
You do great work!!!!! Tomorrow will be the fourth week since Spence's
hip replacement surgery and today we were out on the tennis court for
the first time. You told him not to move around a lot. Well, Good Luck.
He was all over the place. He hit with the three of us out there,
stepping into the ball as though he were 21 years old again and perfect.
(I guess he is.) Well, at least his hip is. He demonstrated the serve.
He gave a lesson. We were out there for at least an hour and he
certainly did not stay in one spot. He came home, took a shower and felt
great. He iced and felt great. He took his nap and we figured he would
wake up in some sort of discomfort. Forget it. He's fine. No pain.
Soooooooooooooooo, I guess he's well on his way to total recovery. Your
ears must always be ringing or your nose always itching cause we are
always talking about you.
So how about that????????????????? Love, Elaine
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Melissa Ziober
is a patient of Dr. Andrew Hodge
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| Two days after she was born, she developed a blood infection that chewed away her right hip joint and the top of her femur. Melissa endured several surgeries as a child, resulting in a fused hip. After twenty years of the fusion, she started to develop severe back pain and chronic tendonitis as a result of overcompensation. Several other doctors agreed nothing could be done to fix the fusion and give Melissa a more normal hip. Through the research of the Institute for Mobility and Longevity, Dr. Hodge was able to perform a successful total hip replacement in June of 2007. Melissa's life is drastically improved and she is now pain free and has a range of motion in her hip that she has never before experienced.
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Gary Carter
From the Big League to New
Knees, Story of an Athlete
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 Former
Major League catcher and current manager of the St. Lucie Mets baseball team,
Gary Carter has nothing but praise for the work done at the BioMotion Orthopedic
Research Lab. Eighteen years of crouching behind home plate led to numerous knee
surgeries for Carter. None of them had the success that followed his knee
replacement performed two years ago by Dr. Hodge.
"I've had surgery in '84, one in
'85, another one in '89, 2 in '92, which then included my left knee, another one
in '95 and another in '98. I've had 11 total, but now with Dr. Hodge performing
the surgery in 2004, I've had nothing but great success with it. I've been more
mobile in my playing golf and in my managing. Everything that I was not able to
do for a number of years after I retired from the game in 1992. I will be an
advocate of those that are in pain and discomfort to have this done".
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Rose Marie
Hip Replacement; A "Sailing
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| Rose Marie traced her hip problems
to a masseuse who pulled it badly 15 years ago. Eventually her hip became
arthritic, gradually diminishing her mobility to the point where she couldn't
walk. For three months, she couldn't even get out of bed.
Then she found Dr. Hodge, an
orthopedic surgeon who replaced her hip in an operation at Good Samaritan
Medical Center. Three months later, after rehabilitative therapy she boarded the
Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship for a 30-day tour of northern Europe.
"I didn't miss one day of the
tour," Rose Marie said. "We were nonstop, on the go. Four months before, I
couldn't move, and here I was walking and walking straight. Talk about getting
your lifestyle back! When we arrived in St. Petersburg and Moscow, there were
huge palaces and you have to climb those stairs; there are no elevators. That
was quite an experience. Up and down stairs, up and down buses. You name it, I
did it. Non-stop. I never took a night or day off."
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Horace
A Hero Stands Tall!
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| For Horace, a battalion chief with
the Martin County Fire Dept., BioMotion's research changed his life.
"I never knew what it was like as
a child to walk normal, per se. I always had a weird gait. As I got older, prior
to my surgery, that gate became more noticeable. The pain had gotten to the
point where, when I was at home, I would get crutches and go stand in the corner
and try to get catnaps".
Through state-of-the-art
technology, an evaluation of Horace's case led to a successful hip replacement
surgery, leaving him pain free and walking straight for the first time in almost
40 years.
"I think people take a lot of
things in life for granted," Horace said. "Mobility in life for me had become
tremendously compromised. It was affecting how I interacted with my family. What
Dr. Hodge has been able to give back to me is that part of my life that allows
me to interact with my family. It allows me to do my job as a firefighter more
effectively and efficiently.
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Jerry
Profile of a True
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 The
longtime tennis player's knees started to give way in his 50's, and after seven
operations, he was in so much pain, he couldn't even walk straight. "That's when
I went to see Dr. Hodge", he said. Hodge replaced both of Jerry's knees. "He's
given me my lifestyle back. Now I can play tennis, I can race my bike, I can do
whatever the heck I want to do".
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