Traditional hip replacement surgery involves removal of the entire natural hip joint form the patient’s body, and replacing it with a metal or plastic prosthesis. However, there is a new kind of surgery – the minimally invasive hip replacement surgery – that has taken up...
Partial knee replacement, as the name suggests, is where only part of the knee joint is replaced with new prostheses. The entire knee is not removed; instead only the infected part is replaced with plastic or metallic components. This helps to retain the healthy compartments...
Total knee replacement in Bangalore involves removing the entire knee joint, or only the infected part, and replacing it with artificial prosthesis; and we all know that. But, if you are the inquisitive one who wants to learn deeper into how it is done, this...
A hip replacement surgery in itself is a very crucial decision to take, let alone thinking about what kind of total hip replacement in Bangalore to undergo. Patients are generally worried only with the thought of their natural hip bones being removed and replaced with...
One of the major concerns for hip replacement patients is about their recovery time and recovery process after the surgery. So, if you are fretting over it, you aren’t alone. It is very natural for any human to be worried about his recovery after any...
During a total hip replacement in Bangalore, an artificial hip is installed within the patient’s body. Such prosthesis could be made of a variety of materials, and could involve various approaches towards performing the surgery. These include posterior, anterior, lateral, antero-lateral, and greater trochanter osteotomy....
There are a number of hip implant devices available in the market produced by different manufactures, constructed in different model types. The materials used are also varied, but the most popularly used materials include metal and plastic. Metals like titanium and cobalt-chromium alloys are mostly...
When you have severe pain in the knee or have injured your knee that has resulted in discomfort and immobility, and no medications, injections, therapies, or exercises are helping, you have no option, but to undergo a knee replacement surgery. When such a case arises,...
Knee replacement surgery – this is one procedure that often has people getting terrified and nervous. It is very natural for you to get worried when the doctor says that you need to undergo the surgery, but when there is no other option and you...
With exhausting lifestyles and unhealthy eating habits, joint issues are becoming a huge problem. While joint problems have been seen as a problem with the elderly, today people start experiencing joint pains even before the senior citizenship age. And, this is becoming a very common...