JointMedica, a global leader in orthopedic innovation, announces the commencement of an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) study for its Polymotion® Hip Resurfacing (PHR®) device. The IDE study ...

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A leading figure in knee and hip joint and artificial joint replacement surgery ... hip disorders and pelvic and femoral fractures. He has served as head of external cooperation at Korea ...

The two most common procedures are the femoral head ostectomy and the total hip replacement. In a femoral head ostectomy, or ...

Although the quantification and evaluation of dementia severity is not a standard practice of hip replacement surgeons ... which involves removal of the femoral head without prosthetic implantation.

Later scans revealed that some of her treatment had caused necrosis in both her femoral heads and she had to have hip replacement surgery. “When I woke up from surgery, they told me the bone the ...

to cut through the original femoral head, ream out cartilage from the original hip socket and reshape the socket before inserting the new metal piece. Since a hip replacement requires anesthesia ...

"Without adequate circulation, the bone simply begins to crumble and die," says Michael Bronson, MD, chief of joint replacement ... injured vessels was the femoral head, or tip of the thigh ...