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About Orthopedic Specialists

Orthopedic Specialists of Seattle provides new and advanced procedures including endoscopic carpel tunnel release surgery for carpal tunnel syrome, complex joint restoration procedures, anterior approach hip replacement surgery, and more.

Joint Replacement: Is It the Right Choice for You?

If you have arthritic joint pain and are considering joint replacement, you’ll want to attend this important class. Dr. Charles Peterson will discuss hip and knee replacement surgery. He will hold a Q&A session after his lecture for any questions.

Dr. Charles Peterson
Lecture + Q&A Session

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017
6:00pm – 8:00pm

Seminar Location
Swedish Ballard
5300 Tallman Avenue NW, Seattle, WA 98107

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Relief for Your Foot and Ankle Pain

If you are having Foot or Ankle problem(s), you’ll want to attend this important class. Dr. Mark Reed will discuss the top 5 foot and ankle conditions, including Ankle Replacement. Dr. Reed will go through non-surgical and surgical options for these conditions.

Dr. Mark Reed
Lecture + Q&A
Tuesday, March 14th, 2017 CANCELLED
6:00pm – 8:00pm

Seminar Location
Swedish Ballard
5300 Tallman Ave. NW, Seattle
Conference Room A

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Joint Replacement: Is It the Right Choice for You?

If you have arthritic joint pain and are considering joint replacement, you’ll want to attend this important class. Dr. Charles Peterson will discuss hip and knee replacement surgery. He will hold a Q&A session after his lecture for any questions.

Dr. Charles Peterson
Lecture + Q&A Session

Wednesday, January 25th, 2017
6:00pm-7:30pm

Swedish Ballard Campus
5300 Tallman Avenue NW, Seattle, WA 98107

Seminar Registration

One Weight-Loss Approach Fits All? No, Not Even Close

By GINA KOLATA | DEC. 12, 2016

“Dr. Frank Sacks, a professor of nutrition at Harvard, likes to challenge his audience when he gives lectures on obesity.

“If you want to make a great discovery,” he tells them, figure out this: Why do some people lose 50 pounds on a diet while others on the same diet gain a few pounds?

Then he shows them data from a study he did that found exactly that effect.

Dr. Sacks’s challenge is a question at the center of obesity research today. Two people can have the same amount of excess weight, they can be the same age, the same socioeconomic class, the same race, the same gender. And yet a treatment that works for one will do nothing for the other.

The problem, researchers say, is that obesity and its precursor — being overweight — are not one disease but instead, like cancer, they are many. “You can look at two people with the same amount of excess body weight and they put on the weight for very different reasons,” said Dr. Arya Sharma, medical director of the obesity program at the University of Alberta.”

READ FULL ARTICLE ON THE NEW YORK TIMES