Thanks to The Hana Orthopedic Table from Union City, Calif.-based Mizuho OSI, patients who undergo hip replacement surgery at Trinitas Regional Medical Center are experiencing less pain and faster ...

Imagine a scuffed-up billiard ball. Dr. William Petty, an orthopedic surgeon, holds up the arthritic ball of a hip joint, pointing out the rough patches where the osteophytes, commonly known as "bone ...

More than 300,000 hip replacements are done every year in the U.S. Most patients are between the ages 50 and 80. There has been a revolution in how the surgery is done over the past decade, thanks to ...

There are more high-acuity orthopedic procedures going to the outpatient setting today, including total joint replacements. Orthopedic technology is developing for minimally invasive procedures, and ...

With the number of patients receiving hip and knee replacements growing every day, physicians are constantly finding new and improved ways to perform surgery, and the use of the Hana® Table is one of ...

This article was written for our sponsor, Cape Fear Valley Health. The word is getting out that a hip replacement that starts with an incision from the front (anterior) instead of a more typical back ...

BACKGROUND: Hip replacement, or arthroplasty, is a surgical procedure in which the disease parts of the hip joint are removed and replaced with artificial parts, called prosthesis. The goal of hip ...

Orthopedic surgeon Andrew Wickline, MD, of New Hartford, N.Y.-based Genesee Orthopedics & Plastic Surgery Associates introduced the anterior approach to hip replacement into his surgical practice in ...

An anterior hip replacement is a surgical procedure in which damaged bones in your hip joint are replaced with an artificial hip (total hip arthroplasty). Other names for the procedure are minimally ...