If you need joint replacement -- including hip, knee, and other joints -- Duke’s experience and personal approach can put you on the road to improved mobility.

While hip and knee replacements are most common, our surgeons’ expertise also extends to shoulders, elbows, ankles, and other joints.

Surgeons at the Duke Total Joint Center perform more than 700 hip and knee replacements each year on patients ranging from young adults to senior citizens.

Patients come to us from across North America and from around the world.

Personal Approach to Care

Surgeons at Duke take an individualized approach to adult reconstructive surgery. A wide range of techniques, including vascularized bone grafting, arthroscopy of the hip and knee, partial replacements, and osteotomy, are used in an effort to delay the need for an artificial joint. Many of these techniques were pioneered at Duke.

When these techniques fail to prevent joint replacement, Duke doctors are committed to offering the most advanced replacement procedures available.  These treatments include:

• INBONE and Salto-Talaris Ankle Replacements
• Hip Resurfacing
• Free Vascularized Bone Graft for the Hip
• Total Knee Replacement
• Unicompartmental Knee Replacement
• Minimally Invasive Hip and Knee Surgery
• Computer Assisted Surgery

Specific orthopedic training as well as access to cutting edge technology insures that patients receive the highest quality care possible.

Duke Orthopaedics ranked six in the nation in 2009 according to U.S.News & World Report.