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 commo...
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...
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 to...
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 compl...
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...
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...
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...
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 treatm...
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 cart...
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...
