I’m Dr Jim Hasn, and firstly I’d like to welcome you to my website. Whether you or someone you know and care about are the one suffering with a painful joint condition, I hope that the information provided on this website is of value to you.
I have provided orthopaedic surgical care to the New South Wales Central Coast community since 1994. With almost two decades of experience, I have chosen to focus on providing care for patients needing surgery for arthritis of the hip and knee joints. To date I have performed well over 3000 joint replacements, including revision surgery.
As you look through the website, you can find out answers to many questions about osteoarthritis of the hip and knee joints, and its treatment. There will be regular blog postings, as well as the opportunity to sign up for a newsletter, so I warmly invite you to stay in touch via the website.
Dr Jim Hasn has been caring for patients suffering from the pain of arthritis for almost 20 years. In that time, he has gained an appreciation of how severely lives can be affected by the progressive nature of the disease, and also how lives can be restored following successful surgery.
One of the most common reasons why total joint replacement may be required is to relieve the pain caused by osteoarthritis. Other possible causes include rheumatoid arthritis and avascular necrosis. Joint replacement becomes necessary when all other options have been tried and have been found to be unsuccessful, and quality of life has become so compromised that the option of surgery is welcomed.
Dr Jim Hasn is committed to restoring patients' quality of life and returning them to an active lifestyle they can fully enjoy.
After graduating Medicine from Sydney University in 1983, Dr Jim Hasn spent his early post-graduate years at the Prince of Wales and the Prince Henry Hospitals in Sydney, where his interest in orthopaedics was ignited. His interest in joint replacement was then further inspired during a year spent at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in England, where the groundbreaking McKee-Farrar hip replacement was pioneered. It was there that Dr Hasn's passion for joint replacement surgery was cemented (if you'll pardon the pun!).
In 1990 Dr Hasn was accepted onto the Australian Orthopaedic Association Registrar Training Scheme, being awarded Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons in 1993. Fellowship to the Australian Orthopaedic Association followed in 1998.
Dr Hasn commenced practice on the NSW Central Coast in 1994, where he has since continued to live and practice Orthopaedics. Special areas of interest include primary and revision hip replacement, primary and revision knee replacement, and arthroscopic knee surgery.
