Hip Replacement Surgery & In One Day
New approach to common hip surgery allows patients to come in at 9 a.m. and leave the hospital at 5 p.m. Source: Healthline Read More
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Baseball Fan Back to the Bleachers after Hip Revision
Unfortunately, due to infections and improper healing, Peggy had three more hip surgeries over the next six years, all of which left her in pain and using walking aids. Concerned that he had done all he could, Peggy’s local doctor referred her to an expert, Dr. Brett Levine of Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush, one of […]
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
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
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 ever before. Source: Ivanhoe