When you have hip replacement surgery, your doctor will likely give you detailed instructions about what to do immediately afterward and while you recuperate at home. In general, there aren’t many ...

A special wound catheter used to infuse local anesthetic into the hip joint can provide improved post-operative pain control for patients undergoing hip replacement surgery, according to a study ...

Older patients, in particular, have better outcomes with the surgery.

More patients who have undergone hip and knee arthroplasty in Queensland will have access to a digitally enabled post-operative care pathway, which enabled faster recovery times in a recent pilot. The ...

Hip replacement is a major, arduous elective surgery, and rehabilitation afterwards takes time, according to an expert from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. It'll also take coordinated planning ...

For longtime local Bill Smaine, the mountains have always felt like home. A former competitive skier from New Hampshire, Bill ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. This story first appeared in Healthy You - November 2024, The Gazette’s quarterly health publication.

The procedure was carried out at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai, where the patient was evaluated after suffering ...

Q. Last week, my 81-year-old mother fell breaking her right hip. The orthopedic surgeon she saw at the emergency room recommended surgery. She had a hip replacement done for her fracture, although she ...