About Hip Replacement Surgery

Hip arthroplasty, better known as hip replacement or hip resurfacing, is one of the best inventions of medical science. It is nothing but the process of replacing a hip joint by a prosthetic implant. Hip replacement surgery is usually recommended to patients with severe arthritic pain.

However, Hip Replacement is also recommended to fix severe physical joint damage as part of hip fracture treatment. Hip replacement surgery is an orthopaedic surgery that results in a better life for a patient with painful hip joint.
But, hip resurfacing is not a common surgery like knee joint replacement, shoulder joint Replacement etc. And in fact, new studies reveal that hip resurfacing is not appropriate for all patients with arthritis.

Conventional hip replacement surgery is still a better choice for some patients. It is a standard hip replacement surgery that includes incisions as per the patient's physical size. Overweight and obese patients usually require longer incisions than their slimmer counterparts.

The Hip Surgery process involves detachment of some of the muscles around the hip to expose the joint so that the prosthesis (a device designed to replace a missing part of the body or to make a part of the body work better) is placed.