While these are still major surgeries, new techniques and technologies are redefining them — and improving people's outcomes, explains Dr. Brandon Bukowski, an orthopedic surgeon at the Mayo Clinic ...

When 11-year-old Emma Thornton starts secondary school soon, her mother Theresa says it will be a fresh start for her because no-one will know what she has been through over the past five years.

Emirates Specialty Hospital’s Joint Replacement Center leads the way in innovative surgery A total knee replacement (TKR) or a total hip replacement is a surgical procedure recommended to relieve ...

China's approval of the first 3D-printed implant for mass use could lead to a boom in the technology and benefit hundreds of thousands of patients every year, according to medical experts. The ...

British surgeons have for the first time implanted a hip joint made on a 3D printer - and held it in place with the patient's own stem cells. The titanium metal implant was custom-made for Meryl ...

The team included critical care specialists, professor Anjan Trikha and Dr Manpreet Kaur, and professor of surgery, Dr Biplab Mishra. Doctors worked out the dimensions for the implant through a CT ...

The pelvis forms the base of the spine as well as the socket of the hip joint. The pelvic bones include the hip bones, sacrum, and coccyx. The hip bones are composed of three sets of bones that fuse ...