Physical therapy, walking aids, and injections can help avoid a hip replacement. Hip resurfacing surgery preserves more bone and is an option for younger patients. Hip fusion surgery eliminates motion ...

Love for sports can take a toll on aging bodies, with deteriorating joints leading to painful osteoarthritis, especially in the hip. For hardcore athletes and weekend warriors, a total hip replacement ...

(Medical Xpress)—University of California, San Diego Health System is one of only a few hospitals in the nation to offer computer-assisted navigation technology with the direct anterior hip ...

For those living with chronic hip pain, a total joint replacement used to be the only—option for getting back to an active lifestyle. However, advancements in orthopedic care have led to the rise of a ...

Robert Barrack, MD, the Charles F. and Joanne Knight Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at WashU Medicine, led a long-term study that showed that patients who received a Birmingham hip resurfacing ...