A 76-year-old woman considering total hip replacement, 1 year later.Offers brief information on a 76-year-old woman who had a total hip replacement. Comments by the doctor, the patient, and the patient's husband on how she has fared since the surgery....
Hip replacement lawyers have successfully sued hip implant makers on behalf of thousands of patients who suffered painful complications from faulty devices.
4 things you can do now to avoid a knee or hip replacement later in life BYLucy Maher August 1, 2024 at 1:30 AM GMT+8 There are steps you can take to help prevent knee and hip problems and potentially avoid surgery. Getty Images...
A hip replacement includes an artificial hip socket and femoral stem with an attached femoral head picture at right.Hip replacement surgery is very effective in relieving pain and improving patient function and quality of life. However, hip replacements may “wear out” or fail for other reasons,...
As a total hip replacement has a limited lifespan, hip resurfacing may five additional years of mobility before total replacement is required. This increases the chance that a younger patient will outlive any total hip procedure that is required at a later date. Hip resurfacing will include the...
Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would have needed a hip replacement. It started out as a headache in my leg and soon, I couldn’t walk. After swearing off surgery, I spent two painful years in denial going to physical therapy, trying acupuncture, taking medications, eve...
Hip replacement surgery is performed to treat problems in these structures caused by osteoarthritis (calcification), tumor, advanced age hip fracture, bone necrosis, hip dislocation and other hip joint damage. The operation is performed in two types as replacement of one (regional hip replacement) ...
The guidance defines the “benchmark” effectiveness of primary total hip replacement implants as “a revision rate of 10% or less at 10 years”. Furthermore, the guidance states that “evidence used in support of any prosthesis, to establish whether or not it achieves this benchmark, should...
One Japanese study found that of the small percentage—3.8 percent—of patients who ran after total hip replacement, none experienced any sign of damage to the implant a year later. However, another French study assessed patients an average of 11 years after total hip replacement and found 14 ...
Dr Sean A Sutphen is an orthopedic surgeon in Glenview, Chicago, Highland Park and Bannockburn, IL. He specializes in minimally invasive total hip and knee replacement, hip injection and arthroscopic knee surgery.