We are seeing an increase in the number of patients who present with hip pain and have a greater understanding of the various etiologies that can cause this pain. It has...
In a recent article published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, several authors looked at factors associated with an increase risk of infection after joint replac...
As the country slips into a deepening recession, the demand for joint replacement does not decrease. While people are putting off certain types of elective surgery those...
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 se...
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,...
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...
