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An anterior pelvic tilt occurs when your pelvis is rotated forward, which forces your spine to curve. Excessive sitting without enough exercise and stretching often causes it. Research suggests that hip-focused stretches, exercises, and awareness techniques may help reduce anterior pelvic tilt.

With intraoperative femur fractures on the rise, surgeons should aim to prevent these fractures from occurring by identifying high-risk patients and surgical risk factors

 The message on both sides is that both of these [stems] work well. It is dealer s choice, McCalden, associate professor at the University of Western...

Dual mobility components in total hip arthroplasty are a proven concept that decrease dislocation rates in patients at high risk for instability

Hip pain causes include serious problems like a fracture or joint infection and less serious causes like bursitis.

Published results showed total hip arthroplasty with computer-assisted fluoroscopic navigation may yield decreased OR times and costs with comparable clinical outcomes vs. robotic-assisted surgery.

A research team in the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), found that hip fractures not only result in both physical and psychological injuries, but may also induce adverse cardiovascular events. In particular, hip fracture patients...

A revision hip replacement surgery is a surgical procedure to replace a worn out or failed hip replacement implant. Hip replacements are among the most common procedures performed by orthopedic surgeons. This surgery is generally very successful and has excellent results in the vast majority of pati...

Severe hip arthritis can cause pain and difficulty walking. Many people who have these debilitating symptoms because of hip arthritis will elect to undergo total hip replacement surgery. However, total hip replacement is not without its own risks and concerns, and therefore many people wonder if the...

The ACL is in the middle of the knee joint and is an intra-articular ligament. This is important to understand because, in general, extra-articular ligaments (MCL) can heal sometimes on their own without surgery, while intra-articular ligaments (ACL) cannot.