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Hip Replacement Resources

This list of hip replacement resources will continue to grow as I develop the site. Please do come back and check for interesting books, videos, articles, exercise sheets and more.

Books

"What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery" : Ronald P Grelsamer, M.D. Warner Books 2004 - An excellent, informative understandable guide to hip and knee surgery. Highly recommended.

"A Patient's Guide to Knee and Hip Replacement" Irwin Silber, Fireside 1999 - Informative and a good read, recommended.

"The Daily Telegraph Hip Replacement: What You Really Need to Know": Thomas Crump. Robinson 2004 - a bit dated and now out of print - though Amazon still had a few copies last time I looked.

Journal Articles

Leg Length Discrepancy

T O White and T W Dougall. Leg Length is Not Important; Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery-Br. 2002: 84-B: 335-9

Javad Parvizi, et al Surgical Treatment of Limb-Length Discrepancy Following Total Hip Arthroplasty; Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery; Volume 85-A - Number 12 - December 2003

Equity in access to total joint replacement of the hip and knee in England: cross sectional study, BMJ 2010;341:c4092

Modular Components

MCarthy J. C ; Bono J. V. and ; O'Donnell P. J. Custom and modular components in primary total hip replacement; New England Baptist Hospital, Boston, MA, USA Clinical orthopaedics and related research: 1997, No. 344; pp 1- 174

Timing of Hip Replacement

University of Toronto Study about timing of hip replacements (lost reference will put back in shortly!)

Exercise - Preoperative

Daniel S. Rooks et al. Effect of preoperative exercise on measures of functional status in men and women undergoing total hip and knee arthroplasty; Arthritis Care and Research: 2006; Volume 55 Issue 5, Pages 700 - 708

Gilbey et al. Exercise improves early functional recovery after total hip arthroplasty. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2003 Mar;(408):193-200.

Interviews

Pamela is interviewed by Terry Heaton of ThePoMoBlog

Websites

Edheads - Virtual Hip Replacement Surgery: this is wonderful. You get to do the surgery yourself. A great explanation of how hip surgery is performed. Definitely try this one.