Most people experience some pain after a hip replacement. Pain usually ranges from mild to moderate and may radiate to the thigh. Doctors call post-hip replacement surgery pain in the thigh femoral ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . With increasing life expectancy, frailty and hip fractures will correspondingly increase in numbers, now at more ...
As populations continue to age, total hip replacement (THR) is becoming an increasingly common surgical procedure. Experts estimate that approximately one million THRs are performed each year ...
A study by Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) and other centers found that total hip replacement performed with a cementless prosthesis for a femoral neck fracture led to a higher rate of a second ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results showed survivorship free from all-cause re-revision was 87% at 2 years and 82% at 5 years. The speaker ...
Total hip arthroplasty (THA) aims to restore hip joint alignment in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) or osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH). While THA directly affects hip alignment, it also ...
Surgeons compared traditional and new fully hydroxyapatite-coated hip replacement stems. They found the new stems offer larger contact areas, while traditional ones preserve bone density long-term.
Stress shielding and aseptic loosening are complications of short stem total hip arthroplasty, which may lead to hardware failure. Stems with increased porosity toward the distal end were discovered ...
Hip impingement is when the ball of your thigh bone (femur) and hip socket don’t fit together like they should. Hip impingement is also known as femoroacetabular impingement (FAI). Cam impingement is ...