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Factoid: The most frequent reason cited for joint replacement surgery was to relieve the pain and disability caused by severe arthritis.*
Source: National Center for Health Statistics; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2003 National Hospital Discharge Survey.
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By replacing the painful parts of the hip with a series of metal and plastic parts designed to work like your hip joint, hip replacement surgery can give you back your freedom of movement without the pain.
Hip Replacement: When pain interferes with your lifeMost people who develop pain in their hips find that they gradually stop doing the things they love as they adapt their lives to cope with reduced mobility. Some even begin to feel that they're losing their independence.
If you are experiencing this kind of life-altering pain, you and your doctor may decide that hip replacement surgery is the next step. The most common type of hip replacement surgery is called "total hip arthroplasty."
The SurgeryYour hip joint resembles a ball that fits into a socket during surgery, the arthritic parts of the ball and socket joint are removed and replaced by the metal and plastic prosthesis.
Increased movement and use of the hip with significantly less pain is usually experienced after six weeks, allowing people who have had hip replacement surgery to resume many of the activities they had to give up. Often they find that over the next year they still continue to improve.
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