I'm an orthopedic surgeon and we're about to perform a total hip replacement for a patient ... dislocated the hip and removed the femoral head, or ball to the ball and hip socket, So here's ...

Hip replacement (also known as total hip replacement or total hip arthroplasty) is a surgical procedure that is performed to replace damaged cartilage in the hip joint. The operation involves removing ...

During the interval from 1991 through 1996, 23 hips in 18 patients (12 male and 6 female) with the diagnosis of AVN had arthroscopy of the hip with prospective follow-up at our institution.

But many surgeons now treat these "minimally displaced" femoral ... from head-to-head clinical trials will help surgeons advise patients on whether to choose an immediate hip replacement, which ...

All participants received calcium and vitamin D supplementation. Areal BMD was assessed at the lumbar spine, femoral neck, total hip and total body less head using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry at ...