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…
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Outpatient Total Hip Replacement
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…