I'm an orthopedic surgeon and we're about to perform a total hip replacement for a patient with severe osteoarthritis of ... we take extra precautions in surgery. We wear astronaut suits so ...

For those living with joint pain, there’s some good news. A recent study suggests that a pill called colchicine might help ...

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD Severe hip arthritis can cause pain and difficulty walking. Many people who have these debilitating symptoms because of hip arthritis will elect to undergo ...

Authors of a 2015 review of the literature on the subject concluded, “pre-habilitation has no significant postoperative benefits in function, quality of life [or] pain in patients who have had knee or ...

5 Osteotomy, mosaicplasty and arthroplasty are some of the existing types of surgery used to manage OA of the hip and knee ... Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC), ...

While knee replacement surgery is life-changing for individuals with final-stage arthritis, it is crucial to explore less ...

In most instances, doctors say a secondary arthritis usually develops as well, further increasing pain, and facilitating the need for hip replacement surgery. "Some people come to replacement ...

2008;59(9):1221-1228. Treatment strategies for osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip have traditionally involved pharmacologic pain relief, surgical intervention and other measures such as weight ...

A combination of these non-operative measures may help ease the pain and disability caused by hip arthritis. If the non-operative methods have failed to make a person's condition bearable, surgery may ...

A new study revealed a strikingly high prevalence of symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (SKOA) among patients with fragility hip ...

Yet surgery to repair the damage from hand arthritis is relatively rare. One reason is that finger surgery has a high ... However, the results are usually less satisfactory than with hip and knee ...

Patient Opts For Simultaneous Bilateral Hip Replacement Surgery Given the severity of ... "On this World Arthritis Day, it's ...