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HIP RESURFACING AND HIP REPLACEMENT CENTER



This website bring some explainations on the surgical treatments for hip arthritis, especialy the hip protheses.

It expose the technical improvements, the new components presently used and try to answer to the people questions concerning this subject.






1. Hip resurfacing protheses :

Like the conventional total hip replacement, the hip resurfacing concern the surgical treatment of the hip arthritis when all the medical treatment failed.

This document is composed by several chapters which are the successive steps of study research on this subject:

The study of conventional total hip replacement and hip resurfacing need the description of the following stages:

2. Hip arthritis:

Hip anatomy; hip arthritis definition (damaged cartilage of the hip); origin of hip arthritis: secondary hip arthritis and primitive hip arthritis;

3. The evolution of Hip Replacement:

With the conventional total hip replacement appear the hip resurfacing;

4. Caracteristics of hip Replacement:

The caracteristics of hip Replacement concern their morphology and their coating surface:

  • Conventional total hip replacement with "femoral stem":
    • Cemented hip replacement > with a high chance that this prosthesis will wear out during her lifetime and need to be changed again; the second replacement is called "revision";
    • Cementless hip replacement or coated prosthesis.
  • Hip Resurfacing and hip arthritis of younger people;

The discussion of Hip Replacement technic evocate the minimaly invasive hip surgery.

5. Hip Replacement-Surgery period:

Practical Considerations around the hip replacement, before the operation and the post operative care:

  • The clinical examination ; the hip pain, specialy during the walk;
  • The diagnostic before the hip replacement;
  • The hip replacement surgery;
  • The post operative care and the physical rehabilitation period.

6. Health care in the European Union:

People who have residence in a country of European union can choice the country in which they will be operated and can ask the payment of the operation by their medical insurance if the resident country can't propose to them the operative in normal delay.

7. The medical and surgical staff

8. Pre-Admission medical questionnaire

9. Hip Institute - Contact

The Hip Institute is composed by the Consultation Offices and the Surgical Clinic of the Hip for Hip Replacement and Hip Resurfacing.
Those procedures are applied with a continious mind of innovation.

Patients can also have an answer if they need resurfacing knee prosthesis or shoulder prosthesis.
For that, they can visit the specific chapters on the following website: raphaelmosseri.com.