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Article: Joint replacement: an inside look.(Cover Story)
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- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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Turn on the TV and there is golf legend lack Nicklaus extolling the virtues of his hip replacement. Still competing on the links, Nicklaus is among the growing number of people in the United States each year who have a hip joint rep]aced. So is rock star Eddie Van Halen, who was 43 when he had his hip replaced in 1999, the same year as Nicklaus.
Cases like these are laying to test the stereotype that only the aged and the inactive receive hip replacements. The same holds true for those who have knee joints replaced.
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) calls total hip replacement an orthopedic success story, "enabling hundreds of thousands ...