Dustin Hambright M.D. - Charleston Institute for Advanced Orthopedics

06/12/2025

Charleston’s leaders in same day hip and knee replacements at East Cooper Medical Center and at the Southeastern Spine and Orthopaedic Institute Ambulatory Surgery Center. You could have your replacement surgery and be home for dinner the same day. Dustin Hambright M.D. (Harvard trained hip and knee replacement surgeon) at East Cooper Medical Center offering robotic and computer navigated hip and knee replacements as an outpatient surgery. Now has online scheduling as well as telemedicine appointments as needed. Click the link to schedule https://consumer.scheduling.athena.io/?practitionerId=30548-440

Regional hip and knee replacement and reconstruction institute in Charleston, South Carolina.

05/30/2025

YouTube/podcast on hip and back pain. Took a few minutes to discuss the relationship of the hip and back pain with Dr. Schell at Southeastern Spine Institute. You can find it here — https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bYKeSlXfWTU&t=5s

Novant Health presents:Hosted by Benjamin A Schell, MD of the Southeastern Spine Institute with guest, Dustin Hambright, MD of the Charleston Institute for A...

05/30/2025

Another article contribution through Novant Healthcare. I gave input on the new osteoporosis guidelines. Osteoporosis by the numbers: Osteoporosis affects over 54 million Americans 50 and older. An additional 44 million Americans have low bone density, placing them at increased risk of osteoporosis. After age 50, 1 in 2 women and 1 in 4 men will break a bone due to osteoporosis. Only 24% of women aged 65 and older reported having a bone density test in the past two years, according to a study from 2008-2014.

Find the article here—

Far more post-menopausal women should ask their doctors to be screened for the bone-weakening condition, osteoporosis. Learn more here.

05/23/2025

New article I contributed information for publication. It is specifically for physicians referring patients for hip and knee replacements. It also has some good info for patients. Take a look —> https://www.novanthealth.org/healthy-headlines/top-5-things-to-know-when-referring-patients-for-chronic-joint-pain-or-replacement

05/17/2025

My Physician Assistant and I training on the latest robotic partial knee replacement, total knee replacement, and total hip replacement technology with Stryker Orthopaedics team.

05/05/2025

Dustin Hambright M.D. (Harvard trained hip and knee replacement surgeon) at East Cooper Medical Center offering robotic and computer navigated hip and knee replacements. Now has online scheduling as well as telemedicine appointments as needed. Click the link to schedule https://consumer.scheduling.athena.io/?practitionerId=30548-440

04/14/2025

The best family marketing team. By Nella Hambright (10yrs). *For the orthopods out there, this is a stock photo. I try to avoid the anterior tibial sloped component.

04/08/2025

Great post op story. Phenomenal recovery. At 2 months from total knee replacement, this patient ran the 2025 Charleston Cooper River Bridge Run 3 days ago. Her drive through recovery and rehab has been amazing to watch.

04/07/2025

📱💻📞Orthopaedic Telehealth Now Available—We are making telehealth visits available via video conference through Athena health electronic medical record or by phone check-ins. Happy to see you for any of hip and knee issues via telehealth to help you stay healthy. Please call our office to schedule a telehealth visit if needed 843-971-9350.

04/03/2025

💡Using X-ray during hip replacement surgery to assure acceptable component positioning. ☑️Study we published showing that the use of digital imaging during hip replacement surgery improves accuracy of component positioning. ☑️ left image shows the use of digital imaging to make measurements during surgery ☑️ right image shows how with use of digital imaging (red Xs) we were in acceptable range on every case(within the box for acceptable angles for component placement).🔍 https://online.boneandjoint.org.uk/doi/full/10.1302/0301-620X.100B1.BJJ-2017-0596.R1

04/01/2025

Online Self Scheduling now available for your hip and knee pain.
https://www.novanthealth.org/pf/providers/1306130307/dustin-hambright

04/01/2025

Credit One Charleston Open tennis tournament this week. May have you thinking about tennis after hip replacement surgery. Andy Murray competed very well after a hip resurfacing (🔍https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2019/06/12/andy-murray-can-complete-slow-recovery-hip-resurfacing/). 💡Can you play after a total hip replacement? Yes you can but with caution.

☑️Based on the literature, most recommend returning to a lower impact tennis like doubles tennis. A few surgeon do allow patients to return to singles but only those with experience and on a limited basis (🔍https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5489758/pdf/eor-2-189.pdf).

⚠️Bottomline, until future studies are performed, both myself and most surgeons advise caution in tennis activities, especially high impact singles tennis, and will follow tennis players yearly to see if high impact tennis playing is causing any signs of loosening around your components. Lower impact doubles tennis is okay.

☑️A study done by Mont et al. 1999 in the American Journal of Sports Medicine characterized patients who play tennis after undergoing hip arthroplasty in terms of their functional abilities and degree of satisfaction. One year after arthroplasty, players played both singles and doubles approximately three times per week. All tennis players were extremely satisfied with their hip arthroplasties and their increased ability to participate in their favorite sport. 🔍(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9934420)