Hip Replacement Surgery

Hip replacements are result of disease or injury causing the bones in the joint to breakdown or joint pain. In some cases doctors will prescribe therapy, exercise or medication to either decrease the pain or improve the function, while the joints heal. But if the damage is severe and prevents daily activity, doctors may prescribe a hip replacement surgery. Normally, healthy and active individuals experience good results with this type of operation.
Like other aspects of medicine, there have been many improvements and many still come with risks and consequences depending on the individual’s response to the treatment. Today, hip replacement devices have come under fire accused of negligence for marketing defective health products. Victims
The surgery itself comes with certain risks yet the after-effects involving FDA approved hip replacement devices have caused many more serious health hazards for individuals seeking to improve their mobility and return to a level of healthy living. Today the numbers of patients experiencing failure with these devices and many more are contracting more serious and life threatening
The first a total hip replacement including the entire hip joint, ball and socket and the femoral stem. Partial hip replacements consist of only the ball being and the last type is a hip resurfacing process, where the cup is replaced with the ball being reshaped and covered with a metal cap.
Each year more than 120,000 individuals are diagnosis annually in need of some form of hip replacement treatment. Since 2010 more than 326,000 hip replacements were performed as inpatient procedures with over 90% of the patients being over the age of 45. Looking back between the years of 2000 to 2010 the hip replacement procedures have more than doubled from 138,000 to 310,000 according to the National Center for Health Statistics. It’s a trend that continues as we proceed into