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What is Hip Replacement ? Total hip replacement is a surgical procedure with remarkable success and patient satisfaction rate. It is performed on patients with arthritis of hip joint resulting from several causes like ageing wear and tear, avascular necrosis of the hip ball due to loss of blood supply, rheumatoid arthritis, post-injury arthritis or following hip fracture and/or surgery. – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: Total Hip Replacement–a Patient Guide


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Total Hip Replacement A Patient Guide
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What is Hip Replacement?
  • Total hip replacement is a surgical procedure
    with remarkable success and patient satisfaction
    rate.
  • It is performed on patients with arthritis of hip
    joint resulting from several causes like ageing
    wear and tear, avascular necrosis of the hip ball
    due to loss of blood supply, rheumatoid
    arthritis, post-injury arthritis or hip fracture.

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Who would need a total hip replacement?
  • Do you have constant pain at your hip joint?
  • Do you limp at your hip while walking?
  • Do you feel your affected leg to be shortened?
  • Is your gait changed due to hip pain or leg
    shortening?
  • If answers to most of the following mentioned
    questions are YES, then probably hip replacement
    is need!

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Who would need a total hip replacement?
  • Does the pain travel from front of your hip to
    front of the thigh and even up to the knee?
  • Have you been on long term steroid use for any
    disease?
  • Has your hip pain started following any previous
    hip injury or fracture?
  • If YES, then, probably it's time to consult your
    orthopedic doctor and get your hip joint
    checked!

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Hip Replacement Surgery
  • Hip replacement is a surgery with high success
    rate. The result is achieved by a teamwork of
    highly trained professionals.
  • Patient must be made aware of the advantages of
    the procedure as well as the precautions to be
    taken after surgery.
  • Check out the key goals of hip replacement
    surgery .

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Goals of Hip Replacement Surgery
  • Following are the goals to be achieved from a
    successful hip replacement surgery
  • Pain relief at rest as well as during all
    activities.
  • Improved hip joint movement and function.
  • Correction of any leg length discrepancy.
  • Improved strength of the muscle acting around the
    hip.
  • Improved gait pattern and resumption to active
    normal lifestyle.

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Goals of Hip Replacement Surgery
  • Precautions to be taken for hip replacement
  • are as following
  • Avoid sitting on the floor or sitting in crossed
    legged fashion.
  • Avoid indulging in high-energy activities like
    running, jumping or jogging.
  • Avoid accidental falls.
  • Cycling, swimming and brisk walking can be
    carried out after around 3 months of surgery,
    depending on individual recovery and limitations.

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How safe is total hip replacement surgery?
  • People all over the world have been experiencing
    the success of THR. Its totally a safe
    procedure.
  • Added to the conventional medical treatments, the
    science has always invented much and made THR
    even better than ever.
  • The advanced THR procedure is accurate and done
    almost without any risks while or after the
    operation.

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Recovery after Hip Replacement
  • With new innovations in surgical techniques,
    invention of improved materials and designs of
    hip implants, nowadays, Hip replacement has
    become very safe procedure.
  • The patient starts walking on a same day of
    procedure within few hours.
  • Stair climbing and stick walking can be carried
    out on 3rd or 4th operative day.
  • Discharge to the home on 4th or 5th day of
    surgery.
  • Very short and pain-free physiotherapy period of
    2 to 3 weeks duration.
  • Resumption of active daily life and regular
    duties in 4 to 6 weeks time.
  • Long lasting results and happy pain-free years
    added to life.

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How long will THR usually last for?
  • The hip implants in as many as 85 cases will
    last for approximately 20 years or more. It is
    twice as much as the time it lasted in the 1970s
    for.
  • The innovation in surgical technologies,
    techniques and hip implants has yet much to offer
    in near future.

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