If you need total knee or total hip replacement surgery—and your weight is significantly higher than it should be—your doctor may advise you to lose weight before your procedure. Even though you may feel fit and healthy at your current weight, studies show that a patient with a BMI greater than 40 is more likely…
Paget’s disease of bone is a chronic disease of the skeleton. In healthy bone, a process called remodeling removes old pieces of bone and replaces them with new, fresh bone. Paget’s disease causes this process to shift out of balance, resulting in new bone that is abnormally shaped, weak, and brittle. Paget’s disease most often…
Fracture: A bone fracture is the medical definition for a broken bone. Fractures are usually caused by traumas like falls, car accidents or sports injury. But some medical conditions and repetitive forces (like running) can increase your risk for experiencing certain types of fractures. If you break a bone, you might need surgery to repair it…
Hip replacement surgery in Mumbai is a surgical procedure to replace hip joint by a prosthetic implant known as hip prosthesis. People who feel any of the issue listed below should consider having hip replacement surgery. If a person has hip pain that does not allow him/her to do normal day activities. If a person…
Knee replacement has been used as a standard medical procedure to replace a damaged bone and cartilage with an artificial joint. Gone are the days when people would consider alternatives to total knee replacement because of the complications in the surgery and the long recovery period. Technological advancements have increased the success rate of this…