Does a Hip Fracture Mean Hip Replacement Surgery?
A broken bone, or fracture, happens when excessive force applied to a bone causes it to break or shatter. A hip fracture occurs when there is a break in the hip bone, usually in the upper part of the femur or the pelvic bone. Hip fractures are a particular …
How a 3D printer could mean a breakthrough for joint-replacement surgery
Since last summer, Ranganathan and his team — consisting of Jill Sharkey, a member of Rowan University’s class of 2017, and Ridwan Murshed, a Rowan grad student from Bangladesh — have been working to develop new pieces that would administer …
Pain Management Therapy for Hip Pain
Hip pain can be the result of several conditions. It can be due to a fracture from a fall or other type of accident. This hip pain means a bone has either been cracked or completely broken. A person should …
What are the Three Approaches for Total Hip Replacement Surgery?
Dr. Dan Albright, orthopedic surgeon discusses the three approaches to hip replacement surgery: anterior, lateral and posterior and which approach he feels has the quickest recovery. For more information on hip replacement surgery and the different approaches, contact Dr. Dan …
Repair cartilage potentially can heal horribly broken bones
Now new research shows that stem cells could one day be stimulated to make a special type of cartilage to help repair large, hard-to-heal bone fractures. Source: Science Daily Read more
Patients go onto total knee replacements quicker after knee arthroscopy vs PT
At the Arthroscopy Association of North America Annual Meeting, Ronald A. Navarro, MD, discussed a study which evaluated whether knee arthroscopy for treatment of meniscal damage bought patients more time to knee replacement compared with physical therapy (PT). He said …
Same-Day Hip Surgery?
Three-hundred thirty-two thousand Americans have hip replacement every year. For most, the surgery requires a hospital stay, and weeks of rehabilitation. Now, a different approach to surgery is getting patients back on their feet and out of the hospital faster than …
Parental hip fracture predicts fracture risk in adult offspring
Adults are at higher risk for major osteoporotic fracture if one of their parents experienced a hip fracture, particularly if that fracture occurred at a younger age, according to recent study findings. Source: Healio Read more
Better fix for torn ACLs
Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine have developed a model to show that a newer surgical technique results in a stronger, more natural ACL repair. Source: Science Daily Read more
Multiple risk factors, BMD associated with hip fracture in older men
Older men with an increasing number of specific risk factors combined with decreased bone mineral density at the femoral neck are at elevated risk for hip fracture, according to study findings. Source: Healio Read more
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