Hip Replacement

Hip replacement surgery is a treatment for pain and disability in the hip. Osteoarthritis is the most common reason for hip replacement surgery. Hip is the most important joint of the body as it relays the weight share of whole upper body upon lower limb. A person never realises the kind of stress and load he puts upon his/her hip joints during various activities like standing, walking, running, jumping, cross leg sitting, squatting etc.

Certain conditions like old hip fractures, improper blood supply to hip joint’s bones (like in AVN), old age, weaken bony architecture (osteoporosis), some bone tumors, metabolic bone diseases like Gout, some immunological disease like Rheumatoid arthritis etc. are the reasons because of which the hip joint may need joint replacement surgery which is called the total hip joint replacement. Sometimes only one component of hip joint need to be replaced. This procedure is called hemi replacement of hip joint means half hip joint replacement.