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How Does Your Hip Work?
The hip is a ball-and-socket joint where your thigh bone joins with your pelvis. Cartilage, muscles, and ligaments surround your hip, making it the largest weight-bearing joint in your body. Also, smooth cartilage and bone help you walk easily and without pain.
Large muscles power the hip joint, and a rubbery type of tissue covers and pads the joints. When all of the parts, including cartilage, muscles and tendons, are healthy, a hip should move easily.
However, a hip is diseased when one or more parts of the hip are damaged and movement becomes stiff. Over time, cartilage starts to crack or wear away. When this happens, the bones making up the joint rub together. As a result, stiffness and pain occur when the ball starts to grind in the socket.
Unfortunately, cartilage does not have the ability to repair or replace itself like other tissues in the body. Therefore, cartilage is gone forever once it is damaged or destroyed.
What is Total Hip Replacement Surgery?
Total hip replacement is a surgery to take out the damaged parts of your hip joint and replace them with new parts.
During hip replacement surgery, your surgeon will:
- Put you under anesthesia.
- Make a cut so they can access your hip joint.
- Remove the damaged parts of your bones and/or cartilage.
- Replace the removed parts with metal and plastic implants.
Hip Replacement Options
The direct anterior approach to hip replacement surgery lets your surgeon access your hip joint through the front of the hip. Then, your surgeon will work through the muscles around your hip without cutting these muscles.
This approach can have several benefits. Specifically, it may:
- Let you return to your normal routine faster after surgery.
- Cause less pain.
- Give you a faster recovery time.
- Reduce the likelihood of hip dislocation.
However, you might wonder, why don’t all surgeons perform hip replacements through the direct anterior approach?
Surgeons can perform hip replacement through:
- the back of the hip (posterior approach)
- the side of the hip (lateral or anterolateral approach)
- the front of the hip (anterior approach)
- or through a combination of approaches.
Additionally, your surgeon must use implants and tools compatible with the direct anterior approach. Although special surgical tables are not necessary, using a special table may help your surgeon position your hip replacement implant correctly during surgery.
Surgeons may perform outpatient, or short-stay, total hip replacement surgery on select patients who are healthy enough to undergo surgery in this setting.
Advantages of outpatient surgery can include:
- Reduced hospital stay.
- Possible reduced chance of infection.
- Possible increased patient satisfaction.1
Therefore, it is important to ask your doctor if they are performing outpatient total hip replacement surgery and if you are a candidate.
Advita Hip Replacement System
Advita Ortho’s total hip replacement implants are designed to make the most of your range of motion after hip surgery.
Also, Advita hip implants are designed to be strong and preserve your natural bone.
Some of the unique features of the Advita hip system include:
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With any surgery, there are potential risks, and results will vary depending on the patient. Joint replacement surgery is not for everyone. Check with your physician to determine if you are a candidate for joint replacement surgery. Your physician will consider the risks and benefits associated with this procedure, as well as individual factors such as the cause of your condition, your age, height, weight and activity level.
The information contained within this website is for educational purposes only and is not providing medical advice. This information is not intended to replace the expert guidance of your orthopedic surgeon. Please direct any questions or concerns you may have to your orthopedic surgeon. Decisions concerning patient care and treatment should be made solely by your physician(s). With any surgery, there are potential risks and results will vary depending on the patient.
- American Association for Hip and Knee Surgeons. Outpatient Hip or Knee Replacement. https://hipknee.aahks.org/outpatient-hip-or-knee-replacement/
- Data available upon request at Advita. 711-12-80 Titanium Plasma Spray Technical Profile
- Data available upon request at Advita. TR-2010-021. Implant Fixation in an Ovine Model (EBM, DLMS, Plasma) – Executive Summary
These products are manufactured by Exactech, Inc. and distributed by Advita Ortho, LLC.