subject: Hip Surgery - Effective Solution For Severe Hip Joint Damage [print this page] Hip joint is one of the most mobile parts of our body. It handles the body weight and also helps us to move about very easily. This would be enough to understand how important the health of the hip is to our healthy existence. Dislocated, disjoined, unhealthy or damaged hip can cause intolerable pain and if left uncared for, can make a person completely immobile, bedridden and broken. Hip related problems are becoming very common these days due to a number of aspects. Age, of course, is the biggest factor, but a plethora of other factors, like arthritis, bone cancer etc, damages from accidents, cracking etc also can necessitate premature replacement of hip joint.
A very simple procedure lies behind the working of hip joint. A ball-shaped formation positioned at the highest end of the femur is placed inside a cup-shaped formation at the surface of the pelvis bone make a hip joint. The ball is set freely inside the cup but the restrictive edges on the pelvis ensure that the ball stays inside the cup at all times, irrespective of how intense the movement of the ball is. But once damaged or diseased, the normal smooth movement of the ball and the cup is hampered and the patient suffers from great pain at even the mildest of movements.
Hip surgery is the ultimate solution for victims of severe hip problems whereas those with low level of hip damage can be treated with drugs and moderate physiotherapy. In the United States, hip surgical procedure has become really common these days and ranks second only to knee replacement in terms of volumes.
Physicians go for hip surgery after duly considering the general health condition and age group ranges , of the patients. Hip replacement is the process where the damaged cup and ball are removed and a prosthesis composed of a stem and an artificial ball is fixed on the femoral head and a cup, normally made of high endurance plastic is placed on the pelvis surface. Usually, surgeries are very effective in healing the problem, but in only less than five percent cases, difficulties like post-surgery infections, quick dislocation and continuous pain are observed.
But in general terms, hip surgery helps patients back on their feet and allows them to lead normal lives. But the replaced hip, being artificial, needs to be supplanted through hip revising after ten years of so. Even with that, there is no doubt that hip replacement surgeries are the ultimate in the treatment method of damaged hip joints.
