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Cory Calendine, MD

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Cory Calendine, MD

An orthopedic surgeon specializing exclusively in hip and knee replacement at the Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee in Franklin, Tennessee.

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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.

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When can you have sex after hip replacement surgery?

Every joint replacement patient leaves my office with a plan. When to walk, how to ice, when to drive, when to come back. We talk about stairs, showers, sleep, and the first night home. What most of them do not…

Every joint replacement patient leaves my office with a plan. When to walk, how to ice, when to drive, when to come back. We talk about stairs, showers, sleep, and the first night home. What most of them do not leave with is an answer to a question they are thinking about and almost never ask: When can I have sex again?

They don’t ask, and too often we don’t offer. …

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When can you have sex after hip replacement surgery?

Conditions and diseases

Knee replacement marketing undermines informed consent

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…

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

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