Hip Replacement Using Antero-Lateral Approach

The live panel webcast, which will include Farland, now a professor in the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Administration at Western Illinois University, will originate from the Adler Health Education Center, in the lower level of the Genesis Heart Institute on the Genesis Medical Center, East Rusholme Street campus.

The hip replacement surgery is performed by Joseph Martin, M.D., Orthopaedic and Rheumatology Associates, P.C (ORA). ORA, one of the largest practices of its kind between Chicago and Denver, has seven locations and more than 20 doctors providing bone and joint care to residents of eastern Iowa and western Illinois.

According to the National Hospital Discharge Survey, more than 234,000 hip replacement surgeries are performed in the United States each year. That number is expected to continue growing as the population ages.

The most common reason for hip replacement is osteoarthritis in the hip joint. Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease that breaks down cartilage in the joint, causing bones to rub together.

Total hip replacement also is a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (a disease that causes joint pain, stiffness, and swelling), osteonecrosis (a disease that causes the bone in joints to die), injury of the hip joint and bone tumors that break down the hip joint.

In the webcast, Dr. Martin uses an anterolateral approach to perform the hip replacement procedure. This approach allows the patient to lie on his or her side during the surgical procedure. After making a four-inch incision, Dr. Martin divides only a small amount of muscle to gain access to the joint.

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• hip
• replacement
• pain
• surgery
• osteonecrosis
• rheumatoid
• arthritis