The following guidelines will discuss precautions to protect your new hip, exercises to increase your strength and range of motion, and techniques to manage activities of daily living to help you ...

My son has hip dysplasia and a hard time adjusting to its limitations. He's 9 years old, and we've talked to our doctor about treatment options, including physical therapy and hip replacement surgery.

Scientists have coaxed stem cells to grow new cartilage on a scaffold shaped like the ball of a hip joint. This is a major step toward being able one day to use a patient's own cells to repair a ...

Nicole Jefferson was in her late twenties but felt as if she had the hips of a senior citizen. It seemed as if something in her hip was constantly catching and snapping. Pain pinballed from her lower ...

Hip dysplasia affects children by causing joint instability pain and difficulty in movement but early treatment can improve long term outcomes.(Image: Pexels) The human hip is a ball and socket type ...

The hip surgery requires doctors to pop the hip ball out of its socket, saw off the ball, machine the socket, then replace it all with an implanted joint. Over the decades, recovery periods and ...

Dear Dr. Donohue: My husband is 53. He enjoys skiing, hiking, golf and other outdoor activities. He has painful hip arthritis and needs a new hip. We have heard many pros and cons about hip ...

Experts are demanding that metal-on-metal hip replacements are banned after finding ‘unequivocal’ evidence of their poor performance. The biggest study of its kind revealed the implants, fitted on ...