Hip Replacements Gone Wrong

Commonly known as wear and tear arthritis osteoarthritis damages the slick cartilage that covers the ends of bones and helps joints move smoothly.

Hip replacements gone wrong. Conditions that can damage the hip joint sometimes making hip replacement surgery necessary include. Most hip replacements last an average of 20 to 25 years. If you google hip replacement class action you ll receive 352 000 results. If you are the current or past owner of a hip replacement gone wrong a failed hip surgery you are not alone.

There is a window of opportunity where the arthritis is bad enough to justify the riisks but the muscle and bone problems haven t gone too far. If you need the other hip done then you need it doing before the poor gait caused by the pending hip has damaged the replaced one so again there is a window and 3 6 months seems typical for most surgeons. I also had a hip replacement gone bad. A hip replacement surgery hip is an excellent source of pain relief for many individuals who complain of chronic hip pain as a result of a condition called avascular necrosis of the hip.

Such individuals not only have severe pain in the hip but also find it extremely difficult to do any activities of daily living or ambulate any distances as a result of pain in the hip. Hip replacement surgery involves replacing the bony ball and socket with an artificial device made of metal or ceramic. Some hip replacements will last longer while other hip implants can fail much sooner. I am a 50 year old very active woman who had a hip replacement in december of 2013.

Before i talk about what can go wrong with hip replacement surgery let me first say that these complications are unusual. Fortunately none of these things happened to me and the surgery relieved my chronic pain. After 6 months i was still experiencing pain which my surgeon said was scar tissue and i should go for therapy. There are many lawsuits for hip surgeries gone wrong.

Hip and knee replacements can certainly help people like comunale maintain their ability to walk and perform other day to day activities that might otherwise become intolerably painful. Plastic was weakness of hip implants. Shots health news hip replacements in hundreds of thousands of people began to fail after what seemed like successful surgery. Defective products cases after hip surgery.

What it comes down to is that hip replacement manufacturers have paid out 7 5 billion to injured patients since 2000.