Outpatient joint replacement is rapidly reshaping orthopedic care as advances in minimally invasive surgery, anesthesia, rapid recovery protocols and care coordination make same-day hip and knee ...

More than 200,000 hip and knee replacements are performed in the U.K. every year. They are usually performed only when conservative treatments such as physiotherapy, weight loss, and medications are ...

Twenty-five years ago, when Richard Berger, MD, began talking about outpatient joint replacement surgery, much of the orthopedic community found the idea absurd. At the time, hip and knee replacement ...

VOORHEES, N.J. (WPVI) -- Hip replacement surgery used to be seen as a tedious, but necessary procedure, requiring weeks on a walker and months of rehab. But now computer imaging is changing all that.

Persistent knee or hip pain affecting walking, sleep, or daily movement may signal it’s time to consider joint replacement ...

Total hip arthroplasty (hip replacement) is a common treatment for hip osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease caused by cartilage in the hip joint wearing down. However, clinical outcomes vary ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease involving chronic inflammation of the joints. Over time, this inflammation can damage the joints, causing pain, swelling, and stiffness. The ...

Misty Copeland confirmed in a recent Instagram post that she underwent hip-replacement surgery in the fall. This surgery took place shortly after her final performance as a longtime principal dancer ...