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After years of severe osteoarthritis and a decade of pain and discomfort, Carole Freeman had full shoulder replacement surgery on July 19, 2010 at St. Joseph’s Health Centre. Carole describes Dr. Amr ElMaraghy as an excellent surgeon with first-class follow-up care. “St. Joe’s is a teaching hospital so when Dr. ElMaraghy talked about what was happening with resident doctors, I got the benefit of all that knowledge,” said Carole.
“I broke my collarbone years ago and then ten years ago my shoulder began really hurting,” she said. “My right shoulder had been bothering me for so long that I knew the surgery would help. I hadn’t been able to lie on it for years. I figured it wouldn’t be perfect, but it would be better.”
Now months after the shoulder replacement, she has noticed a vast improvement.
“I can do pretty much everything I thought I would be able to do now. I just have to watch what I lift. I just came back from a Baltic cruise and I used my left hand to lift the luggage,” said Carole.
Part of the success of having more functionality, movement and less pain in her right shoulder post-surgery was the physiotherapy treatments she received inside St. Joe’s from July though to November, 2010.
“My physiotherapist Kinny Quan Velanoski worked closely with Dr. ElMaraghy and knew exactly the procedures needed for my recovery,” said Carole. “A friend’s father recently had a partial shoulder replacement at another hospital and his experience was quite different from mine. Because they had no physiotherapy there, he had to go outside for recovery and is not progressing in any way comparable to my experience.”
Carole concludes, “I am positive I couldn’t have received better care anywhere (else).”