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| BLADDER PROBLEMS? | | BREAST SCREEN QUEENSLAND |
| KNEE SURGERY | | MOLE MAX CENTRES |
| SKIN CANCER CLINIC | | U TO CAN HAVE A LISTING HERE! |

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BLADDER PROBLEMS?

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Does your bladder control your life?

A quick new procedure can end incontinence problems - overnight!

A new approach to an old problem offers a solution to a condition that affects at least one in four women, namely the embarrasment and inconvenience of incontinence - a leaky bladder that makes life miserable.

The new day or overnight surgery technique places a polypropylene tape under the uretha to support it, restoring normal anatomy and preventing urine loss.

Catheters are not necessary and there is a return to normal activites within 10-14 days.

Age is no barrier and women in their nineties have been cured.
Over 90% are cured of their incontinence.

For more information and informative brochure
either write to the
Kvinno Centre at
Post Office Box 2175
Southport 4215
or telephone
07 5591 8286 during office hours.

DR DAVID BROWNE
MB. BS. FRCOG. FRANZCOG
Consultant Gynaecologist
Kvinno Centre
140 Queen Street Southport

Telephone 07 5591 8284

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Breast Screen Queensland

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A FREE

Breast Cancer Screening Service is available to Women over 40 years!

For information and appointments

13 20 50

A relocatable service is available
1st Floor ,
60 High Street, Southport

Telephone 5537 0333

Also at
West Burleigh

Telephone 5537 0687

Web site www.health.qld.gov.au/breastscreen

Australian surgeons have pioneered a radical procedure for knee replacements, which for the first time can be done using keyhole surgery. According to medical professionals, it lessons the impact of surgery and dramatically improves the recovery time.

Douglas Blanchonette is one of 20,000 Australians undergoing knee replacements each year, a legacy of plenty of sport and age-related arthritis.

"I thought I was bulletproof when I was young," the knee replacement patient said.

In recent years, a trend to do partial knee replacements has resulted in smaller and smaller incisions. But now, Australian surgeon Ray Randle has developed a world first.

Using virtually a keyhole surgery technique, assisted by a camera on what's called an arthroscope, a hole about two centimetres is all that is needed to insert the partial knee replacement.

"By using this technique we don't disturb any deep soft tissues or muscle and that means there's less swelling and that the patient's recovery is much faster," said orthopaedic surgeon, Dr Ray Randle.

The Australian team developed special instruments to make the new procedure possible, recently demonstrated at the biggest orthopaedic conference in America.

Here, surgeons were so impressed that they have ordered the first run of instruments. However, they, and Australian surgeons, will need special training before the procedure is generally available.

"There's no doubt it's technically more difficult than doing it through an open cut, but it is certainly a win for the patient," said Dr Randle.

Patient Lorraine Leuckel was mobile just 48 hours after surgery.

"It's all fixed, none of the dramatic pain compared to the heartache that I thought I was going to be going through," she said.

Contact
Keyhole-arthroscopically assisted partial knee replacement:

Gold Coast Orthopaedic Surgeon
Dr Ray Randle
John Flynn Medical Centre
Inland Drive TUGUN

Ph: (07) 5598 0094

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