All of the major implant manufacturers over the last couple of years have introduced line extensions to their total knee replacements that tout high-flex knee replacement. Most of these designs have i ...

There has been a fair amount of marketing over the last six months regarding the need for a gender-specific total knee prosthesis. The company promoting this states that traditional total knee replace ...

After the decision has been made to have a hip replacement and the preoperative procedure is completed, the patient is admitted to the hospital the day of the procedure. This usually happens approxima ...

After the appropriate preoperative preparations are completed and the patient is asleep, the surgical procedure will begin. A tourniquet is used to minimize bleeding during the surgical procedure. Blo ...

When a patient has progressed to a point where arthritis of the knee causes daily pain, limitation of activity, and loss of motion, the patient, after a consultation with their orthopedic surgeon, may ...

Over the last five years, there has been quite a bit of interest in minimally invasive joint replacement surgery. In the United States, this phenomenon started with several articles in the lay press e ...

A commonly asked question by patients is why they are prescribed a blood thinning medication after joint replacement surgery. The reason orthopedic surgeons give their patients some form of heparin, C ...

Although the average age for someone having hip replacement surgery is 68, younger people are also benefiting from this procedure. More then 340,000 people have hip replacement surgery each year to re ...

A variety of bearing surfaces are available for use in hip replacement surgery. The most commonly used articulation is a metal ball against polyethylene (a type of plastic) liner. This represents appr ...

While individual results vary based on patient factors, diagnosis, and type of procedure performed, some generalizations about recovery from joint replacement can be made. The majority of joint replac ...