Frederick Schmidt’s Hip Resurfacing with Dr. Bose 2016
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Mr. Schmidt, who was once part of the pre-Olympics team for skiing, arrived on January 26 for a hip resurfacing procedure – a procedure he hoped would give him unrestricted movement and the ability to carry on with his many sporting activities.
…I wrote to Dr. Bose, he explained the procedure to me, and a date was fixed for January 28…
…The procedure, explains Dr. Bose, is different from conventional hip replacement in that it does not replace the femoral head (head of the thigh bone). “The head is kept intact, and we put a cap on it – a metallic cap made of an alloy of cobalt and chromium. The advantage with this is that not only does it preserve bone stock, the natural biomechanics of the socket are also left intact. So, all we do really, is replace the worn out cartilages. My adaptation of this procedure involves preserving the capsule – the fibrous covering of the hip joint. Generally, this is removed during surgery, but I isolate it, cut through it, perform the surgery and then, repair it. This helped preserve blood supply to the femoral head,” he says…
…Ten days after the one-and-a-half-hour surgery and four days of physiotherapy later, Mr. Schmidt has already walked 12 km near his hotel in Mamallapuram.