The start of a new year is always a good time to make resolutions and rededicate yourself to improving your joint health. As I have mentioned in prior blogs, there are several things patients can do t ...

Total joint replacement has been one of most successful medical innervations developed in the 20th century. In October 2007, the Lancet published an article entitled, "The operation of the century, to ...

In the early years of joint replacement, the indication for surgery was intractable pain not relieved by conservative measures. As joint replacement has become more common, pain remains the primary in ...

At the recent meeting of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, a paper was presented comparing hip resurfacing with a metal-on-metal bearing to current large head total hip replacement us ...

The award winning paper at the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons in Dallas, used a national inpatient sample database, to look at data from 51,345 revision total hip replacements performed ...

At the recent meeting of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, November 8th through 9th in Dallas, Texas, several papers were reported on infection and complication rates after joint repl ...

A recent paper, presented at the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, noted that patients who had a frontal plane alignment of the knee that was within 3° plus or minus of ideal, had a signi ...

Patients undergoing hip and knee replacement often do so not only to alleviate pain, but also to participate in low impact-type sports. Golf is a sport that patients are allowed and encouraged to retu ...

There are published reports documenting survivorship of total hip and knee replacement of approximately 90% at 15 years in the elderly individual.  Joint replacements do however fail, both in the youn ...

A recently published article from the University of Western Ontario in the New England Journal of Medicine, calls into question the efficacy of arthroscopy for the treatment of moderate-to-severe oste ...