I am two weeks post op with Dr. Raterman. I live in New
Mexico and traveled to Tampa for surgery and am certainly glad that I did.

Dr. Raterman has now done more than 270 procedures. He did a
resurfacing on my right hip and I will return to Tampa in March for resurfacing
of the left hip.

Resurfacing is one of his favorite things to
do and he has a really good team that he works with all the time. I went into
the hospital on Tuesday and was discharged on Thursday. I stayed in a hotel for
5 … Read the rest

I am 48 weekend warrior guy who went from
constantly moving to slowly dwindling activity to the point of
pretty much forcing myself up to our home gym 4 – 5 days/week.
Ultimately I found it was OA in my L hip that was holding me back. I
tried steroid injections which only showed me how things could be
with a better joint; I met with a local joint replacement
surgeon/friend who thought with my anatomy, age, prior activity
level the BHR was my best option.

Surgery (BHR + a
couple other ortho issues) scheduled for 10/4/10.
Got extremely nervous … Read the rest

The first time I noticed any hip pain was in 2004 when I was jogging and had
a very sharp pain in my left groin area which only occurred when my left knee
was raised to its highest point which didn’t occur on every run and typically
when running hard uphill. The pain subsided and would only reoccur periodically
during subsequent runs (I would run about 2-3 times per week) so I put off
seeing an orthopedic specialist. About 6 months later while on a long walk with
my family I experienced a new pain in my left groin area … Read the rest

My name is Wayne Bono. I had the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing done in April of
2007. I was referred to Dr. Cambize Shahrdar by a tennis friend. I was unable to
play competitive tennis after being the No. 1 ranked 55 year old in the Southern
Section.

My surgery was done in Willis Knighton Pierremont Health Center in Shreveport,
Baton Rouge, La
Since my surgery I have started playing competitive tennis again and just lost
in finals of the Bocage Senior National level II tennis tournament to the
National 65’s champion who was also the 60’s world champion in a … Read the rest

I am located in Shreveport La. and my doctor is Cambize Shahrdar. I raced
motocross my whole life and my body got beaten up pretty bad. The hips always
seemed to be involved in crashes. Also, racing motocross requires a lot of
training like running and biking which also is rough on the hips. I noticed
trying to play golf about half way through the round my lower back area would
just be killing me.

After a good while of dealing with the pain I decided to get checked. That is
when I discovered my hips were in really bad … Read the rest