Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of hip resurfacing arthroplasty for the treatment of hip arthritis in younger patients demonstrated a lower ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . According to published results, patients who undergo total hip arthroplasty following hip arthroscopy are at ...

Arthritis Care Research News Alerts. 2008;59(4):738-745. Along with age and injuries, obesity is a leading risk factor for osteoarthritis (OA), a painful and disabling joint disease. While excessive ...

MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center has made history by becoming the first hospital in the world to successfully perform a ...

Over the past two years, an expert in revision hip and knee replacement surgery has seen an increase in the number of people needing a second surgery. When a knee or hip implant wears out or another ...

"Octogenarians are an effective surgical reward," lead author Dr Javad Parvizi (Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA) told rheumawire. He added that patients between the ages of 80 and 90 ...

A hip or knee replacement can last 15 years on average, 30 years with newer technology. But sometimes a replacement might not hold that long when implants become loose or develop inflections. This is ...

A new study evaluated the effects of obesity on complications and outcomes following total hip replacements and investigated whether the results differed in obese women and men. Obese patients tend to ...

People with mental illness experience more complications after hip replacement surgery compared to those who do not have psychiatric issues, a new study has found. The findings of the research bring ...

Osteolysis - a disease that eats away at bone tissue - is the leading reason for joint replacement reoperation An estimated 8,500 hip revision procedures are conducted in England, Wales and Northern ...