A healthy diet and good sleep habits also support a smoother recovery. At Boston Medical Center, many patients follow a Rapid ...

Welcome to the operating room. I'm Dr. John Henry. I'm an orthopedic surgeon and we're about to perform a total hip replacement for a patient with severe osteoarthritis of the hip. Total joint ...

If your doctor recommends total hip replacement surgery ... only the head of the femur is removed and replaced with ...

Primary total hip and total knee replacements are among the most common and successful orthopedic procedures worldwide. These ...

My mother had a total hip replacement (THR) 20 years ago, at age 50, just after my dad had died of a brain tumour. She would say, ‘at least this hip problem is not life threatening’. After mum’s joint ...