Hip Replacements — Surgical Techniques Compared

 

Last year over 58,000 people in Canada needed hip or knee replacement surgery. Dr. Nelson Greidanus, Research Scientist with the Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, studied hip surgery patients who received either a new technique using a smaller incision or the standard surgical technique. He found that with the new procedure there were more fractures and re-operations.

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