Judith Cooper didn’t fret about getting back to exercising after knee replacement surgery. Neither did the North Naples resident hold out long before getting back to her home-cleaning business two days a week, a job that involves a lot of bending. “I went back to riding a bike in eight weeks,” said Cooper, who turns 67 next week. “I can bend my knee back like you wouldn’t believe.” Cooper’s positive outcome after having her right knee replaced in October 2006 dovetails with expectations when a gender-specific prosthesis is used, an implant design that mimics female anatomy of the knee. “I think this is a product that markedly improves patient outcome,” said Dr. Jon Dounchis, the orthopedic surgeon in Naples who performed Cooper’s surgery at NCH Naples Downtown Hospital. Dounchis and eight other orthopedic surgeons in Collier County are using the gender-specific knee. The first of its kind, it has been on the market 18 months. The manufacturer is Zimmer, a Warsaw, Ind.-based manufacturer of orthopedic implants. The goal is improved flexibility after surgery, something that wasn’t being achieved so well for women using one of the traditional implants.
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