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...
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 polyethe...
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...
Primary total knee arthroplasty enjoys outstanding success at 10 and 15-year follow-ups. However, knee replacements will eventually wear out and fail and need revision. T...
While the success rate of total hip replacement is very high and patient satisfaction is in excess of 90%, complications can occur. Some of the early complications follow...
As the problem of obesity becomes more prevalent, with over 30% of the population meeting the definition of obesity as defined by a body mass index of 30 or greater, we a...
