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What Causes Hip Pain?
Hip pain causes include serious problems like a fracture or joint infection and less serious causes like bursitis.
Advances in perioperative pain management for total knee arthroplasty: a review of multimodal analgesic approaches
Despite significant advancements in total knee arthroplasty (TKA), managing postoperative pain remains a substantial clinical challenge. With advances in surgical techniques and pharmacology, TKA perioperative analgesic strategies continue to evolve, necessitating ongoing reassessment of current data. Multimodal analgesia has become the standard for perioperative pain management in TKA; however, variations in its specific components and applications across studies create challenges in selecting the optimal analgesic approach.
11 Knee Pain Dos and Don’ts
You can do many things to help knee pain, whether it's due to a recent injury or arthritisyou've had for years. Follow these 11 dos and don’ts to help your knees feel their best.
Dual mobility components for THA may be justified in high-risk patients
Dual mobility components in total hip arthroplasty are a proven concept that decrease dislocation rates in patients at high risk for instability
Hip implant study identifies materials with the lowest risk of needing revision
Hip implants with a delta ceramic or oxidized zirconium head and highly crosslinked polyethylene liner or cup had the lowest risk of revision during the 15 years after surgery, a new study led by the University of Bristol has found. The research could help hospitals, surgeons and patients to choose what hip implant to use for replacement surgery.