Artificial hip replacement

Total hip joint surgery

Most current procedures for treating premature hip damage only serve to postpone, at best, the only really effective treatment: implantation of an artificial hip joint.

An operation on the hip is still not a routine measure, making it doubly important that unwanted side effects are kept to a minimum. The operation involves not only the joint itself but also the surrounding tissue.

This means the operative access to the hip joint is of major importance. In the interest of a more gentle procedure, a special lateral approach is used. This avoids unnecessary separation of muscles and tendons from the bone. Compared with the widely used posterior approach, this is the more tissue-sparing method. The muscular system is hardly affected by the operation, the rehabilitation period is shorter and complications such as ossification around the implanted joint can be avoided.