Healthcare News
Will You Have Lifetime Precautions After Hip Replacement?
When you have hip replacement surgery, your doctor will likely give you detailed instructions about what to do immediately afterward and while you recuperate at home. In general, there aren’t many lifetime precautions you’ll need to follow if you’ve had hip replacement surgery.
Neurosurgeon describes 8 common myths about back pain
Back pain is common, but several myths about it persist. Meghan Murphy, M.D., a neurosurgeon at the Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato, describes eight of them and provides the facts.
Why More People in Their 40s Are Opting for Knee & Hip Replacements
Once considered procedures reserved for seniors, hip and knee replacements are increasingly being sought out by people in their 40s and even younger. While the primary goal of these surgeries remains the same—relieving pain and restoring mobility—the reasons younger patients are going under the knife reflect changing cultural attitudes toward aging, fitness, and quality of life.
The future of spine surgery: healing backs without screws or metal implants
Metal rods, screws and bone grafts have long been the backbone of spinal fusion surgeries — a fix for fractured spines, worn-out discs or bones that refuse to heal on their own. The hardware works. But it’s also rigid and invasive, and often leaves patients with lingering pain, stiffness and the need for follow-up surgeries down the road. At the University of Missouri, a team of engineers is working on a new approach. In the Biomodulatory Materials Engineering Laboratory in the Roy Blunt NextGen Precision Health building, researchers led by Principal Investigator Bret Ulery are building a future where spines heal not through steel, but through biology — using tiny, bioactive materials made from therapeutic peptides to guide the body’s natural repair processes from the inside out.
Bone Density After Hip Surgery Mostly Unchanged
BONE mineral density (BMD) assessment using radiofrequency echographic multispectrometry (REMS) shows that age, sex, and BMI remain the strongest determinants of bone health, even in the context of total hip replacement surgery. A new study found that metal implants contribute minimally to measured changes in femoral neck BMD.
