Palmer Shawn DO

I can’t begin to offer enough praise for Dr. Palmer. He replaced my hip ten days ago and other than my amazement at the performance of, and result achieved by, Dr. Palmer and his extraordinary team, it was a non-​event. I don’t think hip replacement can be any better that that… unless it can also be pain free… and mine was that also.
To very briefly summarize my experience, I hobbled in with pretty severe pain in the morning and walked out with a new hip, the aid of a walker and NO pain by late afternoon. The walker was gone the next day and the cane a few days later. Throughout, what «pain» I’ve experienced is no more than a few physical therapy induced muscle aches as my body relearns how to move.
Hip replacement techniques have advanced greatly in recent years. Dr. Palmer and The Hip and Knee Center are among the pioneers and leaders in the evolution of one very significant improvement called the «anterior approach». My research leading up to surgery indicated that this method offered so many benefits that it was really the only way to go. The result of my surgery proved that my assumption was correct and that Dr. Palmer’s skills in the technique are unsurpassed.
Beyond the successful result, Dr. Palmer’s entire team deserves compliments. Everyone involved, including Dr. Palmer, his staff, colleagues and support facilities and services (in my case, this included Valley Ambulatory Surgery Center and Valley Medical Inn), are clearly patient centered, exuding a very comforting, quiet confidence in their ability and a sincere desire to provide the patient with the best of care along with a minimum of stress and pain. Across the board, all of these people seem to function in that rare place where extraordinary is the minimum expected norm. I sincerely
thank all of them.