In the past couple months, many people have heard about stem cell treatments being used to try to avoid major joint surgery. Much of these news came from the baseball world, where the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (LAA) allowed doctors to perform a stem cell treatment instead of “Tommy…
A man’s $8 million damage award for a defective hip has survived an appeal before the 4th District Court of Appeal. The trial was the first of thousands of product liability claims filed over the ASR hip device. Plaintiff alleged that the device failed just 5 years after the surgery, despite…
There are a variety of ways a total hip replacement surgery can be performed these days. While every procedure ultimately involves making an incision and removing the patient’s deteriorating hip and replacing it with an artificial device, some doctors will make an anterior incision, some will cut along the side,…
There have been a lot of advances in the total hip replacement surgery process over the past decade. Much of that has focused on the development of new artificial hip joints as well as computer aided methods of performing the operation. There have also been improvements in the cutting guides…
According to a recent news feature from NFL.com, legendary coach and sports analyst John Madden is recovering from a total hip replacement operation. Following his long coaching career that earned him induction into the NFL Hall of Fame, Madden spent many years in the broadcast booth. One of his more…
There has recently been a lot of attention in the media paid to the growing problem with opioid addiction in the nation. We have seen thousands of deaths from accidental overdoses of narcotic painkillers, and the problem is only getting worse, with patients getting access to more and more powerful drugs.…
According to a recent news article from Fox News, doctors are now able to perform a total hip replacement procedure as an outpatient surgery where the patient gets to leave the hospital on the same day. The article follows the journey of a male patient who elected to undergo a…
In a recent news feature from Tech Times, a study was discussed which suggests that patients with mental health issues tend to have more complications following total hip replacement surgery than those who do not suffer from mental illness. This study also suggests that doctors who are going to perform…
When we think of hip replacement surgery we are typically think of senior citizens. For the most part, that is who is getting hip replacement surgery. However, as discussed in a recent article from Fox News, younger are people are getting a total hip replacement much more often than they…
Product-producing giant Johnson & Johnson, along with its DePuy unit, lost a $500 million verdict in a case involving five plaintiffs who alleged they were injured by defective hip implants. Specifically, the Pinnacle metal-on-metal implants, which are known to not only fail more quickly than advertised, but to cause serious…