Dr. Pispati You are correct. AVN has 4 stages – 1 and 2 are the early stages. Stage 3 and 4 are the stages of arthritis – these last 2 stages are diagnosable on x rays. Stages 3 and 4 can be treated with resurfacing. Dr. RubinsteinFrom my point of view as a…
Continue reading →Updated 4/22/2013 Date Issued: Jan. 17, 2013 Audience: Orthopaedic surgeons Health care providers responsible for the ongoing care of patients with metal-on-metal hip implants Patients who are considering or have received a metal-on-metal hip implant Medical Specialties: Orthopaedics, General Medicine, Family Practice, Radiology, Radiologic Technology, Clinical Laboratory Managers and Directors Device: Metal-on-metal hip implants…
Continue reading → FOR WOMEN THIS IS NOT AN ISSUE, BECAUSE THEY CAN GET CONSERVE PLUS WHICH HAS NOT THESE RESTRICTIONS, BECAUSE THERE IS A LARGER MARGIN AND COVERAGE!!!! SO YOU CAN PUBLISH THIS ON YOUR WEBSITE ALSO WITH MY REMARKS!!! THAT IS WHAT I WROTE IN MY BOOKLET ALREADY 6 YEARS AGO (you can find on…
Continue reading →Three Year AnniversaryYo, Hippy Kids…. Today marks three years of remarkable, painfree, unrestricted life after a resurfacing on 15Dec04. In my case, for you who are new here, I was crippled after a handball mishap in May of 1996. I had to stand, leaning on crutches, to check into the hospital, because it finally hurt…
Continue reading →Explaining Hip Resurfacing to Young Children by K2MJones Note: I am 41 years old and had LBHR on 8/13/09 by Dr. James Hall in Bend, Oregon. I have two sons, one who is six and one who is three. Explaining the process to them has been a bit interesting, so I wrote a children’s story…
Continue reading →Link http://proceedings.jbjs.org.uk/cgi/content/abstract/91-B/SUPP_I/66 ANALYSIS OF CEMENT PENETRATION IN HIP RESURFACING ARTHROPLASTY R.M. Gillies; J.H. Gan; G.M. Hawdon; and S.J. McMahon May 2007 Introduction: Prevalence of femoral neck fracture in resurfacing hip arthroplasty continues to question if failure is technique-related or due to the inherent bone quality. This study aimed to correlate cement penetration profile during resurfacing…
Continue reading →X-ray showing a 26 year old man with a diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis and secondary degeneration of the hips. Due to loss of bone stock while waiting for surgery, the right side required a total hip replacement. On the left, the patient underwent a hip resurfacing. Thank You to whoever took this x-ray. There…
Continue reading →By Kani 12/20/06 My costs for my bilateral resurfacing with Dr. De Smet on Dec 20, 2006: I spent 11 nights in the Villa which is more than a single hip resurfacing and was 4 days in the hospital which is also longer than the single hip resurfacing. My costs were: Surgery in Belgium Costs…
Continue reading →Updated 1/14/2012 My physician for hip resurfacing was Dr. xxxxx. My email today is about my experience almost 4 years after my surgery. Before surgery I was a distance runner. I fell on my left hip in 2004, it wasn’t treated, I continued running, I got arthritis, I needed surgery. I had my surgery in…
Continue reading →Paul 5 weeks after Surgery This is exactly 5 weeks after having a Birmingham Hip Resurfacing installed in my hip. At this point I was just beginning to walk without any crutches or cane – you can see the atrophy in my right leg (and my left leg). Without the ability to walk the…
Continue reading →By Jeremy Latham MA MCh FRCS(Orth) 2014 A recent BMJ article shows that thos who have a hip resurfacing have reduced long term mortality compared to those having a hip replacement. Why might this be? Some of us believe that if you have a resurfacing you are likely to be more active and therefore a…
Continue reading →Obtaining Insurance Coverage for HR in Belgium RBHR De Smet Jan. 11, 2005 "I was able to return to my pre-surgery climbing level after six months, and was quite active in the second half of 2005 with climbing and hiking." Friday, January 13, 2006 Success with U.S. Insurance (LONG) Eleven months after surgery in Belgium,…
Continue reading →Updated 10/1/2014 Information Obtained by Vicky Marlow Freelance Patient Advocate Volunteer 6/15/08 One of my patients from India who has had a resurfacing, briefed me on the current discussion in the surfacehippy forum regarding Dr. Klappers opinion of losing acetabular bone in an attempt to preserve femoral head bone in resurfacing. He wanted to know…
Continue reading →Updated 11/22/09 Evelyne has given me permission to post her Water Exercises on the Website. Her only caution to patients is: Just let the patients know that it is easy to overdo things in the pool and that you have to build things up slowly. Evelyne’s Water Exercises: 1.Walking forward, short even steps. Rolling off…
Continue reading →Analysis of wear of retrieved metal-on-metal hip resurfacing implants revised due to pseudotumours Study 2010 Updated 3/19/2010 Analysis of wear of retrieved metal-on-metal hip resurfacing implants revised due to pseudotumours March 2010 Link http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20190305 Kwon YM, Glyn-Jones S, Simpson DJ, Kamali A, McLardy-Smith P, Gill HS, Murray DW. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital,…
Continue reading →Recent BHR news flash for females & others Notice & Discussion of Recent BHR Data: John Rogerson, M.D. 6/19/15 We recently (June 3, 2015) received notification from Smith & Nephew, Inc., the manufacturer and distributor of the Birmingham hip resurfacing prosthesis (BHR), of a voluntary removal (NOT RECALL) from the market of a number of…
Continue reading →Updated 1/20/2012 Survivorship Rates for Hip Resurfacing from National Registries Australian Orthopedic Association National Registry 2011 The cumulative percent revision at ten years for primary total resurfacing hip replacement undertaken for osteoarthritis is 7.5% There are six prostheses with over 1,000 observed component years, the ASR, Adept, BHR, Cormet, Durom and Mitch TRH. At seven…
Continue reading →Anterior Vs Posterior Incisions & Incision Length by Dr. Ethan Lichtblau, Montreal, Quebec & Dr. De Smet of Belgium Dr. De Smet of Belgium Does the length of incision influence the rehabilitation? No! A bigger incision does not mean that there will be more damage to the muscular structures. On the contrary, if you need…
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