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 ...

Biomechanics is a branch of medicine that evaluates loads and stresses on a joint. The manner in which a joint is loaded will have direct effect on the health of the cartilage that covers the end of t ...

A study presented at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons annual meeting in San Francisco, California, March 2008, described a prospective study in which patients were randomized to receive a ...

An article published in the July 2008 issue in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, by Bitsch et al, outlined improved wear characteristics with crossed-linked polyethelene liners for total hip arth ...

In a recent article published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, July 2008, authors Richard Iorio, et al, outlined the growing concern regarding the future burden of joint replacement surgeries ...