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Article: The hip replacement alternative: a newly approved procedure resurfaces a bad hip to allow you greater range of motion.
- Article from:
- Food & Fitness Advisor
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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If severe hip pain from osteoarthritis is hampering your active lifestyle, and you are not being helped by pain medication, exercise, or physical therapy, you may want to look into a new method of hip replacement. The procedure, newly approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is called the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing System. It's kind of like capping a tooth, first resurfacing the damaged bone by shaving it down, then covering the hip joint with a new kind of metal implant.
Remodeling not replacing
Approximately 400,000 people undergo traditional total hip replacement each year. In this procedure, the top portion of the thigh bone (the femoral ...