Cory Calendine is an orthopedic surgeon specializing exclusively in hip and knee replacement at the Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee in Franklin, Tennessee, and is affiliated with Williamson Health. He performs more than 700 joint replacements each year. His clinical interests include surgical technology, including robotics, minimally invasive techniques such as the anterior approach for hip replacement and the subvastus approach for knee replacement, pain management strategies, and optimizing patient outcomes.
Dr. Calendine speaks regularly, nationally and internationally, on joint replacement and has been recognized as a Castle Connolly Top Doctor from 2018 through 2025. He is the founder of Bone Doctor, a patient education YouTube channel with nearly 600,000 subscribers dedicated to helping patients understand arthritis, joint replacement surgery, and recovery. He is committed to advancing patient education, surgical innovation, and the pursuit of better outcomes in hip and knee replacement.
He shares professional updates through his website, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and X. His academic work is also listed on Google Scholar and ORCID.
She came in having done the work. She had watched the clinic videos. Read the website. She knew the name of the proprietary technique for knee replacement that the surgeon’s practice was advertising. She used it correctly in the first sentence of our consultation. What she could not tell me was what the approach actually did differently, which structures it spared, or why it might matter for her specific anatomy …
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Knee replacement marketing undermines informed consent
