Chicago Plastic Surgeon Makes Appearance on Popular Show, The Doctors

    CHICAGO, IL, June 08, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dr. Kotis, a Chicago plastic surgeon, made an appearance on the popular daytime television show The Doctors. He and the show's host, Dr. Drew Ordon, scrubbed in to demonstrate a cutting-edge procedure that can end the pain and limitations caused by rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis.

In the May 24th airing of The Doctors take on Chicago, Dr. Kotis performed a surgery to replace a thumb joint which has been worn down on a woman due to a terrible car accident. The damaged joint caused the bones in the thumb to rub together causing severe rheumatoid as well as osteoarthritis.

The cutting-edge procedure involved taking out the unhealthy bone and replacing the small thumb joint with a prosthetic implant. This will allow the patient to do all the things she did before the accident rendered her incapable, including playing with her daughter, doing daily activities and returning to her bowling league team.

Dr. John A. Kotis, leading Chicago hand surgeon, mentioned that after the patient has a few weeks of physical therapy, "she'll be out on the golf course or back to bowling- doing everything she was doing before."

This injury appears more commonly in women than men. Dr. Kotis said on the show that osteoarthritis plagues women more than men on a 3:1 ratio. There are many reasons for this, including that women are more frequently picking up children as well as the changes in the fluctuation of the sex hormones estrogen and progesterone. These hormones have critical roles in the inflammatory response in addition to the overall regulation of the immune system.

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Arlington Surgery Care Center in Arlington Heights, IL has been accredited by The Joint Commission which has surveyed this organization and found it to meet the requirements for the Office Based Surgery Accreditation Program. The Joint Commission is an independent, not-for-profit, national body that oversees the safety and quality of health care and other services provided in accredited organization. For additional information, please visit http://www.drkotis.com or contact Dr. Kotis' office directly at (847) 577.6400 or 3443 North Kennicott Ave., Arlington Heights, IL 60004.

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