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• Insomnia and Chronic Hip Pain – Shattering the Vicious Cycle
  Is chronic hip pain not only ruining your days, but haunting your nights as well? Is insomnia robbing you of the sleep that you need to heal and to manage your pain?
  Author: Sandra Grauschopf - Date: 06/10/2006



• Huntington Memorial Hospital Advances Total Joint Replacement Surgery, Adding the Navitrack(R) Navigation System
  ORTHOsoft Inc., announced March 1 205 that Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, CA is the first California hospital to purchase its Navitrack(R) Navigation System. With this addition, Computer-Assisted Surgery (CAS) is now available to patients in Southern California seeking the most advanced and affordable technology in orthopedic knee and hip replacement surgery.
  Author: Jeff Nagel - Date: 01/02/2006



• Zimmer Holdings Announces Milestones in Minimally Invasive Joint Replacement
  December 9, 2005—Zimmer Holdings, Inc., a leader in the orthopaedics industry, announced today that it is now following more than 2,500 Minimally Invasive Solutions™ (MIS™) 2-Incision™ Hip Replacement Procedure cases in active clinical studies. The Company estimates that in total more than 3,000 of the innovative procedures have been performed worldwide since inception in 2001.
  Author: Jeff Nagel - Date: 03/01/2006



• Hip Replacement Details – Precision Technology For Your Precious Hip
  With increasing numbers of elderly and younger patients seeking hip replacements, hip replacement details give an understanding of the most common complications, such as bone loss and implant failure.
  Author: Dr. Bharat Sharma - Date: 18/05/2005



• Improving Hip Replacements - Science At Work
  Conventional hip replacement implants are made of polyethylene, which is a multichain polymer with an ultra-high molecular weight. By virtue of its polymer design and high molecular weight, it possesses great strength and durability. The inherent chemical properties render it biocompatible, preventing the danger of tissue reaction. In spite of being abrasion resistant, the polyethylene implant undergoes wear and tear, releasing debris particles. The debris particles of the implant create a bone gap, with due course of time causing loosening of the joint and painful hips. This generates a dire necessity for improving hip replacements.
  Author: Dr. Bharat Sharma - Date: 24/06/2005



• Surgical Hip Replacements - Improving Quality Of Life
  The hip joint, like all other body parts, is subjected to daily stress and strain of activities. In due course of time and due to changing physiology, the hips may get diseased or damaged. The dysfunctional hip joint hinders movement and makes activities difficult. Even simply walking across a room may generate a lot of pain. This significantly influences the quality of life. The affected person becomes dependent as his activities are restricted. Orthopedic surgeons may prescribe analgesics for temporary relief of pain but after some time, these medications may become ineffective. In such cases, surgical hip replacements are the only option left.
  Author: Dr. Bharat Sharma - Date: 02/10/2005



• Hip Replacement Techniques - Art And Science Amalgamate!!!
  The hip joint is nature’s wonder, but unfortunately, the hip joint may become dysfunctional, requiring raplacements or implants to be devised. To imitate the action of a ball and socket hip joint, an artificial implant has 4 parts. The implant stem, which fits into the femur bone, is generally made from metal and is cemented or cementless. The implant head or ball, which replaces the sphere shaped top of the femur bone, may be made of hard, smooth metal or ceramic. The shell or cup is a metal foundation that replaces the worn out acetabulum. Hip replacement techniques decide whether the given implant is going to work properly.
  Author: Dr. Bharat Sharma - Date: 08/03/2005



• Joint Replacements Surgery – Live Life Pain Free
  Joint replacement surgery is one of the most common orthopedic procedures. With the increasing number of elderly afflicted with arthritis, requiring hip joint replacements, surgery to replace the hip joint has become the most common joint replacement. Because of the long history of hip replacement surgery, this procedure has become a safer and more reliable method to treat severe arthritis pain.
  Author: Dr. Bharat Sharma - Date: 21/04/2005



• Hip Replacement Operations – Small Incisions, Big Relief!
  Among operations on the bone, hip replacement operations hold a great position because of the significance of the hip. Loss of hip function causes severe disability, especially in people who lead active lifestyles. Hip replacements and implants help many retain their mobility.
  Author: Dr. Bharat Sharma - Date: 25/04/2005



• Replacement Hip Fixatives – Stem Cells Beef Up Artificial Joints
  During hip replacement surgery, the bony parts of the diseased hips are removed and are replaced by an artificial hip implant. To avoid movement of the replacement implant within the bone, surgeons apply replacement hip fixatives such as acrylic glue around the edges of replacements and implants. This glue anchors the implanted hip to the bone, providing stability to the artificial joint. However, these fixatives do not reduce the damage to the surrounding bone and subsequent implant failure.
  Author: Dr. Bharat Sharma - Date: 29/04/2005



• Hip Replacement Information – An Overview
  With American surgeons performing hundreds of thousands of hip replacements, information about this surgery is essential for the patient to avoid unrealistic expectations about what prosthetic hips can do and how much activity the implants can withstand. Appropriate hip replacement information greatly reduces the anxiety about hips replacements surgeries and also minimizes implant failures.
  Author: Dr. Bharat Sharma - Date: 04/05/2005



• Hip Replacement Options - Better Choices, Better Hips!
  Bones are living tissue and are liable to get damaged. The hip joint is made of bones and cartilage, each of which, if diseased, can cause trouble for the bearer. Hip joints can become inflamed with rheumatoid arthritis, a humoral condition. Osteoarthritis damages the cartilage which aids smooth and pain free movements to the hips. Congenital conditions of the hips in some cases may make movements impossible. These disease conditions are capable of affecting daily performance. In such cases when daily activities become hampered due to painful hips, variouship replacement options are considered to provide optimum relief.
  Author: Dr. Bharat Sharma - Date: 08/03/2005



• Tantalum Coated Implants – Strong, Compatible and Durable
  Tantalum is a hard, grayish blue metal. Its importance in the field of orthopedics comes from the fact that tantalum coated implants have several properties that can be used to enhance the quality of the implants used in hip replacement.
  Author: Dr. Bharat Sharma - Date: 15/05/2005