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Hip Replacement
Also called total hip arthroplasty, hip replacement surgery might be an option for you if your hip pain interferes with daily activities and nonsurgical treatments haven’t helped or are no longer effective. Arthritis damage is the most common reason to need hip replacement.
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Key Decisions of Hip Replacement Surgery <p>Dr. Bassam Masri, MD, FRCSC, Orthopedic Surgeon discusses diagnosis and treatment of key decisions in hip replacement.</p>Dr. Bassam Masri, MD, FRCSC, Orthopedic Surgeon discusses diagnosis and treatment of key decisions in hip replacement.
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Key Decisions of Hip Replacement Surgery
A typical patient with osteoarthritis of the hip would be somebody in their late ‘50s, and sometimes older, sometimes younger. But let’s take somebody in their late ‘50s with hip osteoarthritis. They would start to feel some hip pain that would gradually get worse and worse, to the point that they might think that they need to see an orthopedic surgeon.
And therefore, the recommendation is to always wait as long as possible, as long as there’s not a huge interference with the activities of daily living and the patient’s ability to work and function in a family unit or a social unit, or whatever it is.
