Your hip cartilage is a smooth surface that cushions the ball and socket of the hip joint to keep your bones from rubbing against each other. A hip injury or trauma to the hip could wear down your ...

Hip impingement is a condition where the ball and socket of the hip joint do not fit together as they should. In serious cases, surgery can repair the joint and resolve symptoms. The medical term for ...

Viewers go inside the OR with Arizona's own orthopedic surgeon Dr. Ted Firestone. In The Latest Procedure: Anterior Total Hip Replacement Surgery, viewers go inside the OR with Arizona's own ...

A doctor left a gap in a woman’s femur bone while performing a surgery to correct a hip replacement he had performed on her earlier, a Maine lawsuit says. The empty space couldn’t heal on its own and ...

During your initial knee or hip replacement surgery, the prosthetic (artificial) components were either cemented (attached with bone cement) or hammered into the bone so they could eventually attach ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Wanto, a 37-year-old Western lowland gorilla, successfully underwent surgery at The University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine this week to repair a fracture to his ...

Mechanical engineers designed a 3D-printed femur that could help doctors prepare for surgeries to repair bones and develop treatments for bone tumors. The study, which focused on the middle section of ...