Your Guide to Hip Replacement Surgery . What Is a Hip Replacement? The hip is one of the largest joints in the body and is shaped as a ball and socke ...

Your new hip prosthesis has a femur and pelvis part made from metal and plastics. The cup replaces the worn hip socket of your pelvis. The ball replaces the worn end of your femur. The ball is ...

This differs from a total hip replacement, in which the entire joint is removed and replaced with a metal hip prosthesis. The treatment your doctor recommends will vary based on the type and severity ...

The universality of the Hip’n go concept gives surgeons the possibility to choose either pre-operation or per-operation between : a standard stem (CD angle 130°) and a lateralised stem (CD ...

"What we have done is analogous to replacement of a body part such as a hip replacement. Right now what we have achieved is prosthesis, in that we have replaced part of the protein with something that ...