Outpatient joint replacement is rapidly reshaping orthopedic care as advances in minimally invasive surgery, anesthesia, rapid recovery protocols and care coordination make same-day hip and knee ...

More than 200,000 hip and knee replacements are performed in the U.K. every year. They are usually performed only when conservative treatments such as physiotherapy, weight loss, and medications are ...

Barbara Phillips began competing in powerlifting at 74 after hip replacement surgery and decades of staying active.

Twenty-five years ago, when Richard Berger, MD, began talking about outpatient joint replacement surgery, much of the orthopedic community found the idea absurd. At the time, hip and knee replacement ...

Hip replacement is a major, arduous elective surgery, and rehabilitation afterwards takes time, according to an expert from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. It'll also take coordinated planning ...

A team of Orthopedic surgeons and nurses and take a patient through a hip replacement surgery at Nanyuki hospital. [File, Standard] Hip replacement is a surgery where part of the hip joint is replaced ...

Hip replacement surgery, or hip arthroplasty, is a common procedure that can improve mobility and decrease pain in a hip joint that’s no longer functioning properly. The American College of ...

Persistent knee or hip pain affecting walking, sleep, or daily movement may signal it’s time to consider joint replacement ...

HKUMed study demonstrates that robotic total hip replacement has a lower reoperation rate than the conventional technique. The research team members include Dr Henry Fu Chun-him (right) and Dr Amy ...

A recent randomized controlled trial conducted across three Norwegian hospitals examined whether preoperative exercise programs benefit older adults awaiting total hip replacement (THR). The study, ...

Pune: Two years ago, when a 40-year-old businessman, struggling with morbid obesity, underwent hip replacement surgery, he ...

This is part two of a series on hip fractures. Part one was published on page 4C in the May 16 print edition. When a hip fracture happens, quick treatment is very important. Surgery and proper medical ...