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PROMOTION

Kimberly Starr

DR. BERGER OFFERS approach, which is used in only 2 percent of hip replacements. The
growing number of people who opt for this approach experience less
pain, faster short-term recovery and better long-term prognosis without
INNOVATIVE hours, walking on their own. They can return to work much quicker and
the usual worry of hip dislocation. Patients leave the hospital within a few
resume playing their favorite sports within weeks.
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in younger and more active people,” Dr. Berger said. “I operate on
patients in their late teens. My oldest patient was 101— he needed a hip
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FOR HIP REPLACEMENT, “I have a patient who is a world record holder in his age group, 75
to 80, in the triathlon.”
ALONG WITH A Two-Year-Long Journey Toward Relief

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corroded ladder on an oil tank and landed on her right wrist and hip.
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The doctor who set her broken wrist at the time warned her of potential
hip issues later.
While attending a Mary Kay seminar, Independent National That day of reckoning arrived at the worst possible time: during the
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she could not get out of bed. She made it through the day and began a Independent National Sales Director — one of the elite business leaders
two-year journey for relief that ended with life-changing hip replacement and mentors within the Mary Kay independent sales force, exceeding 3.5
surgery with Dr. Richard Berger. million people in nearly 40 markets around the world. Because of her pain,
Dr. Berger, an engineer and assistant professor of orthopedics at Starr had to miss the closing ceremony, where she would have stood on
Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, has performed more than stage and presented awards to the highest achievers in the company.
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approach he employs avoids cutting muscles, ligaments and tendons, For the next two years, “the pain just kept getting worse,” Starr
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