If your hip joint is worn out, diseased, or injured, you may need a hip replacement. The outcome of surgery may enable you to return to an active lifestyle if you suffer from severe arthritis and cannot perform routine activities.
Having hip replacement surgery is a life-changing event. Knowing that post-surgical pain will be successfully managed during your recovery can help ease surgery anxiety.
When it comes to hip replacement surgery, there are a few different approaches that surgeons utilize. Access to the hip joint can be gained posteriorly (back), laterally (side), anteriorly (front), and anteriorly (through the bikini incision).
Same-day surgeries have continued to rise over the last decade, and for good reason. Same-day hip replacement surgery, or “rapid-recovery hip replacement”, is a minimally invasive hip surgery that allows the patient to return home on the day of surgery.
Roughly 3 million Americans have hip replacement surgery each year with women needing it more frequently than men. Over the last few decades, surgical techniques in hip replacement have come a long way.
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