During surgery your doctor makes an incision in the front of your hip to reach the hip joint.
Anterior approach hip replacement disadvantages.
Anterior approach for hip replacement.
I went with a total hip replacement.
Benefits of an anterior approach hip replacement include a small incision decreased time in the hospital and a decrease in the amount of time it takes to rehabilitate.
5 7 this is because the sciatic nerve runs behind the hip joint so it is not exposed when using the anterior approach.
The advantages of anterior hip replacement are.
While anterior hip replacement has some possible advantages it is unlikely that the surgical approach is the most critical factor in determining the long term success of a hip replacement surgery.
These surgeries are sometimes called modified muscle sparing or minimally invasive procedures.
Some of these disadvantages include the following.
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The anterior approach lets your surgeon operate using a small incision in the front instead of the larger cuts in the side or back.
Because this approach comes with a learning curve for surgeons there are fewer surgeons experienced in anterior hip replacement in the us and ne wisconsin.
Anterior hip replacement is a modern approach and while it s growing in prevalence and patient preference it is not yet as common as posterior hip replacement.
Finding a surgeon to perform an anterior approach hip replacement can be difficult.
An anterior hip replacement is performed from the front of your hip.
Last summer i wiped out on my bike and snapped off the top of my right femur with a diagonal break.
Potential disadvantages of anterior hip replacement surgery procedure.
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Anterior hip replacement is a common type of total hip replacement.
I have had arthritis in my hips.
However it was the introduction of new instrumentation allowing it to be performed using smaller incisions that has increasingly made it a viable alternative to the more popular posterior approach.
While research is limited many studies seem to suggest that the risk of damage to the major nerves near the hip in particular the sciatic nerve is lower with the anterior approach than with the traditional approaches.
Anterior hip replacement may provide some benefits in terms of speeding the early recovery timeline although even this is a subjective debate.
A patient considering anterior hip replacement surgery.
The surgery is still relatively new and uncommon in some places in the world.
I had an anterior approach hip replacement.
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