Bone, cartilage, and joint procedures

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 73. Chapters: Orthopedic surgery, Subluxation, Hip replacement, Distraction osteogenesis, Knee replacement, Bone grafting, Osseointegration, Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, Knee cartilage replacement therapy, Microfracture surgery, Arthroscopy, Gait analysis, Prolotherapy, Hip resurfacing, Adhesive capsulitis of shoulder, Tommy John surgery, Percutaneous vertebroplasty, Osteotomy, Spinal fusion, Joint replacement, Bone cement, Sports medicine, Osteostimulation, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Laminectomy, Stress concentration, Manual therapy, Foot and ankle surgery, The Duchess of Kent Children's Hospital at Sandy Bay, Pedorthist, Arthrogram, Hand surgery, Meniscal cartilage replacement therapy, External fixation, Tissue expansion, Krukenberg procedure, Kirschner wire, Femoral head ostectomy, Coccygectomy, Shoulder surgery, Arthrodesis, Autotransplantation, Hip examination, Harrington rod, Knee examination, Computer Assisted Orthopedic Surgery, Broström procedure, Periosteal reaction, Microsurgical lumbar laminoplasty, Osteolysis, Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, Arthroplasty, Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen, Dynamic compression plate, Weight-bearing, Disc decompression traction procedure, Stress-strain index, Gaenslen's test, Tibial plateau leveling osteotomy, Rotationplasty, Reduction, Schilling Tendon Procedure, Hippocratic bench, Synovectomy, Patrick's test, Percutaneous pinning, Foraminotomy, Buddy wrapping, Brunelli procedure, Beevor's axiom, Sail sign of the elbow, Bone cutter, Hubscher's maneuver, Meniscus transplant, Interspinous process decompression, Chondroplasty, Corticotomy, Bursectomy, Khyphoplasty. Excerpt: Hip replacement is a surgical procedure in which the hip joint is replaced by a prosthetic implant. Hip replacement surgery can be performed as a total replacement or a hemi (half) replacement. Such joint replacement orthopaedic surgery generally is conducted to relieve arthritis pain or fix severe physical joint damage as part of hip fracture treatment. A total hip replacement (total hip arthroplasty) consists of replacing both the acetabulum and the femoral head while hemiarthroplasty generally only replaces the femoral head. Hip replacement is currently the most common orthopaedic operation, though patient satisfaction short and long term varies widely. The earliest recorded attempts at hip replacement (Gluck T, 1891), which were carried out in Germany, used ivory to replace the femoral head (the ball on the femur). In 1940 at Johns Hopkins hospital, Dr. Austin T. Moore (1899-1963), an American surgeon, reported and performed the first metallic hip replacement surgery. The original prosthesis he designed was a proximal femoral replacement, with a large fixed head, made of the Cobalt-Chrome alloy Vitallium. It was about a foot in length and it bolted to the resected end of the femoral shaft (hemiarthroplasty). A later version of Dr. Moore's prosthesis, the so-called Austin Moore, developed in Columbia, SC was introduced in 1952 is still in use today, although rarely. Like modern hip implants it is inserted into the medullary canal of the femur. It depends on bone growth through a hole in the stem for long term attachment. In 1960 a Burmese orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. San Baw (29 June 1922 - 7 December 1984), pioneered the use of ivory hip prostheses to replace ununited fractures of the neck of femur when he first used an ivory prosthesis to replace the fractured hip...