Total Hip replacement Approximately 80,000 hip replacements are performed annually in the UK and these numbers are increasing each year. The commonest reason to perform a THR is for osteoarthritis of the hip where the patient’s symptoms are now severe and interfering...
What is Hip Arthroscopy? Hip Arthroscopy is most commonly performed to treat Femoro-acetabular impingement. In almost every case bone is removed around the hip joint (CAM or Pincer lesions) and the labrum is repaired (or partially removed if irreparable). Many...
As discussed on the page on hip impingement, one of the problems seen as part of this process is damage to the joint surface at the junction of the labrum and hip socket rim (acetabulum). This is called the chondro-labral junction. The sequence of events in hip...
Revision Total Hip replacement There are different reasons why patients may need a Revision Total Hip Replacement. It may be because the patient was relatively young when the original surgery was performed and the hip replacement has effectively worn out. Other...
Abductor Repair or Reconstruction: when is surgery necessary? Abductor Repair or Reconstruction is performed when non-operative measures, such as physiotherapy and injection, have failed to significantly improve a patients symptoms. As discussed on our Hip Abductor...
Hip Replacement – Pelvic Discontinuity A really challenging area of our practice is dealing with patients where hip replacements are loose and the pelvis has broken (fractured). This results in bone loss; the pelvis is unstable due to the fracture. This can...
