In another controversy involving all-metal hips, an influential group has found that there is insufficient evidence to show that an alternative technique known as hip resurfacing is as safe and effective as a traditional replacement.
via Hip Resurfacing Operation Loses Important Endorsement – NYTimes.com.
Have you recently had a hip replacement? Hip replacement surgery is a major procedure, and there are many questions that you likely had going in to the procedure. But what about things you learned along the way that you wish you had known prior to your hip replacement. What knowledge would you share with someone who needs their hip replaced?
via Hip Replacement Tips – Things You Wish You Had Known Before Hip Replacement.
Any surgery brings its worries but hip operations are routine and the techniques are well tested. Around 300,000 operations were performed last year in the US, alone. There is a very low rate of complications and hip replacement recovery is usually very good. For many people, a return to simple activities like walking a dog without pain are the gift of a lifetime.
via Hip Replacement Recovery: What to Expect, Timelines, Outcomes.
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WEST HARTFORD, CT–(Marketwire – Aug 22, 2011) – BroadcastMed, Inc.’s surgical web portal ORLive.com is proud to present a live web program from Santa Monica, CA. Dr. Joel M. Matta will perform a less invasive, alternative to traditional hip replacement surgery called the Anterior Approach. Using the Corail® Total Hip System and the PINNACLE® Acetabular Cup System from DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., as well as a specialized surgical table co-designed by Dr. Matta, he will perform the surgery at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, CA.
“The Anterior Approach allows surgeons to work between the muscles, without detaching them from the hip or thighbones,” said Dr. Matta. “When these important muscles are left relatively undisturbed, patients may be able to freely bend their hip and bear full weight immediately following surgery, which may shorten recovery time.”
via Live Web Event Highlights Anterior Approach to Total Hip Replacement.
WASHINGTON, July 17, 2011With talks of debt-ceilings and America defaulting, it is easy for the average American to determine where dollars in the budget could be saved. Let’s start with the TSA.
Donald Rumsfeld may have smiled through his TSA pat down in Chicago last week, but my friend Barb is not smiling about her recent TSA encounters. Like Rumsfeld, Barb is sporting a metal joint or two, which is not uncommon.
Lock, who has performed about 600 knee and hip replacements over the last three years using the Zimmer technology, said it reduces both patient recovery time and the likelihood that the patient will have to return for an adjustment. That said, he admitted the technology can sometimes be a hard sell to hospital administrators, given that many of the cost savings are only obvious in the long term.
via Mohave Daily News > Archives > News > Local > They have the technology.
History
The earliest recorded attempts at hip replacement (Gluck T, 1891), which were carried out in Germany, used ivory to replace the femoral head (the ball on the femur).1
In 1940 at Johns Hopkins hospital, Dr. Austin T. Moore (1899–1963), an American surgeon, reported and performed the first metallic hip replacement surgery. The original prosthesis he designed was a proximal femoral replacement, with a large fixed head, made of the Cobalt-Chrome alloy Vitallium. It was about a foot in length and it bolted to the resected end of the femoral shaft (hemiarthroplasty). This was unlike later (and current) hip replacement prostheses which are inserted within the medullary canal of the femur. A later version of Dr. Moore’s prosthesis, the so-called Austin Moore, introduced in 1952 is still in use today.
In 1960 a Burmese orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. San Baw (29 June 1922 – 7 December 1984), pioneered the use of ivory hip prostheses to replace ununited fractures of the neck of femur when he first used an ivory prosthesis to replace the fractured hip bone of an 83 year old Burmese Buddhist nun, Daw Punya.2 This was done while Dr. San Baw was the chief of orthopaedic surgery at Mandalay General Hospital in Mandalay, Burma. Dr. San Baw used over 300 ivory hip replacements from the 1960s to 1980s. He presented a paper entitled “Ivory hip replacements for ununited fractures of the neck of femur” at the conference of the British Orthopaedic Association held in London in September 1969. An 88% success rate was discerned in that Dr. San Baw’s patients ranging from the ages of 24 to 87 were able to walk, squat, ride a bicycle and play football a few weeks after their fractured hip bones were replaced with ivory prostheses. Ivory may have been used because it was cheaper than metal at that time in Burma and also was thought to have good biomechanical properties including biological bonding of ivory with the human tissues nearby. An extract from Dr San Baw’s paper, which he presented at the British Orthopaedic Association’s Conference in 1969, is published in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (British edition), February 1970. With modern hip replacement surgery, one can expect to walk immediately post-op.
“Hip replacements were once reserved for the elderly, so younger adults with hips damaged by arthritis or past injury were told to wait to undergo replacement surgery until they were very old,” he says. “Baby boomers today, however, have higher expectations, and don’t want to let a damaged hip slow them down. They want to get back on the ski slopes, back on the jogging track and back to an active life.”
via Boomers: It’s not your Grandma’s hip replacement surgery.
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