US doctors to learn innovative hip surgery by Leith Stewart in South Africa
By Karen Breytenbach Two American orthopaedic surgeons have been taught an innovative hip surgery technique by a local surgeon. Leith Stewart, an orthopaedic surgeon at Claremont Hospital (South Arfrica), last week demonstrated the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing (BHR) procedure to his guests, Ian Kovack from Kansas and Donald Polakoff from New Jersey. One patient was a professional golfer in her 30s and the other an active woman in her 60s. Both were told they would be |