Direct Anterior Approach for Total Hip Replacement
February 1, 2019
The Direct Anterior Approach (DAA) to perform hip replacement surgery is a minimally invasive approach with less in the way of muscle splitting or muscle cutting than other approaches to […]
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Physiotherapy or Surgery? Which is better for the treatment of Femoroacetabular impingement? (FAI)
January 1, 2019
A recent study has concluded that surgical management of FAI gives improved outcomes over a conservative programme with physiotherapy. This is an important study because it was a randomised controlled […]
How soon should you have surgery for FAI once symptoms develop?
April 1, 2018
This is a difficult question and we don’t have all the answers to this, however, I believe there are some important things to take into consideration. The type and nature […]
Getting the diagnosis right in young patients presenting with hip pain
March 1, 2018
I was on the faculty of a hip preservation meeting recently in Switzerland, where as part of the teaching programme there were a number of case discussions. This proved to […]
Referral pathways for patients with Femoroacetabular impingement ( FAI ) and Hip Dysplasia
February 1, 2018
Many patients may have had the experience that they cannot get the necessary referral to the specialist they want with their private medical insurance. This has become an increasingly troublesome […]
Would Andy Murray have avoided his hip injury if surgery had been performed sooner?
January 18, 2018
This is the key question those of us involved in hip preservation surgery would like to be able to answer. At the present time we only know that timely intervention […]
The National Joint Registry and Hip Replacements – what does it tell us?
May 1, 2017
The National Joint Registry (http://www.njrsurgeonhospitalprofile.org.uk) is a registry of all the hip and knee replacements taking place in hospitals in England and Wales. It relies on hospitals to submit accurate […]
Squeaking with ceramic hip replacements
April 2, 2017
A hip replacement using a ceramic on ceramic bearing articulation has the advantage that this combination has a very low wear rate. This means that the replacement can last a […]
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Mild Hip Dysplasia – Treat with Arthroscopy or Periacetabular Osteotomy (PAO)
March 1, 2017
This has been a particular discussion point at a number of national and international meetings over the past few months. The issue is whether patients who have mild acetabular dysplasia […]
Direct Anterior Approach (DAA) for Total Hip Replacement – with or without traction table?
February 3, 2017
There continues to be a lot of interest in the type of surgical approach used for hip replacement. The Direct Anterior Approach, is a muscle sparing approach which seems to […]
