Tag: hip replacement
What is Regenerative Medicine? A Guide for Hip and Knee Pain Patients
When hip or knee pain makes everyday activities like walking, climbing stairs, or even getting out of bed challenging, it’s time to seek relief. While traditional treatments such as medications, physical therapy, and surgery have long been the standard for managing these issues, a new…
Hip exercises
Hip exercises are commonly prescribed for older adults after hip injury or surgery. Even without hip problems, it’s also a good…
What to do about hip pain
What to do about hip pain? When arthritis of the hip becomes so painful and limiting that their lives become unlivable, many…
Minimally invasive hip replacement surgery
Minimally invasive hip replacement surgery has been popularized over the past decade when patient demand for less pain and faster recovery put pressure on both surgeons and implant manufacturers to develop better techniques. What have evolved are better implants and instruments, which match better-trained and understanding…
Hip pain in the middle-aged patient
Hip pain in the middle-aged patient may or may not lead to hip replacement surgery. Surgical treatment for hip pain…
Hip pain after total hip replacement surgery
The last two questions we’ll address in this series about total hip replacement relate to regaining motion and to residual…
Activity after total hip replacement surgery
Getting “back to normal” will depend greatly on your pre-operative physical condition and what you consider to be normal activity. …
Coming home after total hip replacement surgery
Everyone looks forward to going home from the hospital! With the direct anterior approach to total hip replacement performed by…