A special wound catheter used to infuse local anesthetic into the hip joint can provide improved post-operative pain control for patients undergoing hip replacement surgery, according to a study ...

More patients who have undergone hip and knee arthroplasty in Queensland will have access to a digitally enabled post-operative care pathway, which enabled faster recovery times in a recent pilot. The ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. This story first appeared in Healthy You - November 2024, The Gazette’s quarterly health publication.

Older patients, in particular, have better outcomes with the surgery.

SALISBURY — Dr. Paul Lichstein knows what it’s like to be a treated in a hospital and he carries that with him as he helps his own patients to this day. Lichstein is an orthopedic surgeon at Novant ...

Hip replacement surgery, or hip arthroplasty, is a common procedure that can improve mobility and decrease pain in a hip joint that’s no longer functioning properly. The American College of ...

During your initial knee or hip replacement surgery, the prosthetic (artificial) components were either cemented (attached with bone cement) or hammered into the bone so they could eventually attach ...

Objective Insomnia often co-exists with hip or knee pain and is associated with greater pain severity. However, there is ...