Gary Carter
From the Big League to New Knees, Story of an Athlete

Former Major League catcher and current manager of the St. Lucie Mets baseball team, Gary Carter has nothing but praise for the work done at the BioMotion Orthopedic Research Lab. Eighteen years of crouching behind home plate led to numerous knee surgeries for Carter. None of them had the success that followed his knee replacement performed two years ago by Dr. Hodge.

"I've had surgery in '84, one in '85, another one in '89, 2 in '92, which then included my left knee, another one in '95 and another in '98. I've had 11 total, but now with Dr. Hodge performing the surgery in 2004, I've had nothing but great success with it. I've been more mobile in my playing golf and in my managing. Everything that I was not able to do for a number of years after I retired from the game in 1992. I will be an advocate of those that are in pain and discomfort to have this done".

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Rose Marie
Hip Replacement; A "Sailing Success" Story

Rose Marie traced her hip problems to a masseuse who pulled it badly 15 years ago. Eventually her hip became arthritic, gradually diminishing her mobility to the point where she couldn't walk. For three months, she couldn't even get out of bed.

Then she found Dr. Hodge, an orthopedic surgeon who replaced her hip in an operation at Good Samaritan Medical Center. Three months later, after rehabilitative therapy she boarded the Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship for a 30-day tour of northern Europe.

"I didn't miss one day of the tour," Rose Marie said. "We were nonstop, on the go. Four months before, I couldn't move, and here I was walking and walking straight. Talk about getting your lifestyle back! When we arrived in St. Petersburg and Moscow, there were huge palaces and you have to climb those stairs; there are no elevators. That was quite an experience. Up and down stairs, up and down buses. You name it, I did it. Non-stop. I never took a night or day off."

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Horace
A Hero Stands Tall!

For Horace, a battalion chief with the Martin County Fire Dept., BioMotion's research changed his life.

"I never knew what it was like as a child to walk normal, per se. I always had a weird gait. As I got older, prior to my surgery, that gate became more noticeable. The pain had gotten to the point where, when I was at home, I would get crutches and go stand in the corner and try to get catnaps".

Through state-of-the-art technology, an evaluation of Horace's case led to a successful hip replacement surgery, leaving him pain free and walking straight for the first time in almost 40 years.

"I think people take a lot of things in life for granted," Horace said. "Mobility in life for me had become tremendously compromised. It was affecting how I interacted with my family. What Dr. Hodge has been able to give back to me is that part of my life that allows me to interact with my family. It allows me to do my job as a firefighter more effectively and efficiently.

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Jerry
Profile of a True Competitor

The longtime tennis player's knees started to give way in his 50's, and after seven operations, he was in so much pain, he couldn't even walk straight. "That's when I went to see Dr. Hodge", he said. Hodge replaced both of Jerry's knees. "He's given me my lifestyle back. Now I can play tennis, I can race my bike, I can do whatever the heck I want to do".

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