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If you have long-term, debilitating hip pain, chances are good you have tried pain medication, cortisone shots, icing and taping, and physical therapy. You may be exercising more and have shed extra, burdensome weight. So if your orthopedist is recommending hip surgery, it may be that you are running out of non-surgical options. For you…
For those of us suffering from hip pain, even walking or rolling over in bed can become burdensome. Whether it’s from years of overuse or an accident, arthritis or from genetic, hip pain requires management and attention if you are to maintain full range of motion and mobility. Fortunately, there are a variety of treatments…
No doubt about it, hip replacement is a major procedure that often requires weeks, if not months, of rehabilitation for total recovery. After all, it involves the surgical removal of a painful hip joint and its replacement with an artificial joint often made from metal or plastic components. While most hip replacement patients can walk…
When you hear about someone having hip replacement surgery to treat hip arthritis, you might naturally assume it is an elderly patient. However, when a person in their 50s, 40s, or younger has severe hip arthritis that is not relieved with non-operative treatments, hip replacement surgery is a very common – and often practical –…
The hip joint is where the ball of the thigh bone (femur) joins the pelvis at a socket called the acetabulum. There is cartilage covering both the bone of the femur and the acetabulum of the pelvis in the hip joint. A joint lining tissue called synovium surrounds the hip joint. The synovial tissue produces…
The hip joint is one the largest joints of the body, and serves in movement as the thigh moves forward and backward. The hip joint also rotates when sitting and with changes of direction while walking. The hip joint is where the ball of the thigh-bone (femur) joins the pelvis at a socket called the…
