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09 May Life is Cruel……. Thank God for Surgeons & Technology

Posted at 00:00h in Osteopathy, Physiotherapy, Sports Injury Rehabilitation, Uncategorized by jaijo 0 Comments

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I shadowed surgery last week, a hip revision. That is a replacement hip for a failed replacement hip. What made it worse was that the patient concerned was only in his mid 40s and had already had the hip on the other side replaced previously! The...

27 Sep Hip Replacement death rates fall

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Here at Openhealth Clinic, we are seeing more and more joint replacements. A hip is one of the more common joints to be replaced. The good news is that in the eight years between 2003 and 2011, of 400,000 operations, death rates recorded within 90...