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UpgradeTotal Hip replacement surgery is an operation that involves replacing a damaged, worn or diseased hip joint with an artificial joint. Adults of any age can be considered for a hip replacement, although most operations are carried out on people over the age of 50 years.
Hip replacement surgery is usually performed either under a general anaesthetic (you're asleep throughout the procedure) or under a spinal or epidural anaesthetic (you're awake but have no feeling from the waist down). Spinal or Epidural anesthesia is generally safer than General anaesthesia, provides better pain relief and the recovery is quicker.
A cut is made down the side of your hip to expose the hip joint. The head of your thigh bone is resected and replaced with either a metallic or a ceramic head, with a shaft going down your thigh bone. The socket of hip joint is shaved and replaced with either a plastic socket or a metallic socket with a ceramic liner. Adjustments are made to ensure that your hip joint is stable, that your leg lengths are equal and the tension in the muscles around the hip joint is restored. The wound is closed with either stitches or clips and a dressing is applied.
The procedure usually takes between 60-80 minutes, but the whole exercise of taking you down to theatre, giving you the anaesthesia, carrying out the operation, allowing you to recover and return back to the ward could take between 2 to 3 hours.
Hip Replacement surgery is a very successful operation and often considered as the “operation of the century”. The objectives of Hip replacement surgery is to improve your pain, mobility and quality of life.
One Health has been working with the NHS for over a decade and treats over 12,000 new Orthopaedic patients every year. Established in 2004, One Health provides free high quality NHS care for NHS patients requiring Total Hip Replacement Surgery.
After you have decided to have a hip replacement, you will have to attend a pre-operative assessment clinic. Here, a registered nurse will assess your fitness for surgery and also give you information on what to expect during your stay in hospital.
After your operation, you'll be moved from the operation theatre to the recovery room for a short period of time. You will be monitored closely in the recovery room by nursing staff. You will be visited by your anaesthetist and your surgeon, and you'll be told how the operation went.
Here are the most common questions we get asked by patients undergoing or having undergone hip surgery.
You should be able to stop using your crutches at 4-6 weeks after your hip replacement operation, if not sooner. Your pain and swelling will continue to improve with each passing day and week.Your new hip replacement will continue to improve for up to 2 years after your operation.
Hip replacement surgery should be considered when non-surgical treatment options like adequate analgesia, physiotherapy, activity modification weight loss, use of a walking stick etc. have been exhausted.
The hip joint is a ball and socket synovial joint designed to keep the body stable, even when twisting or standing on one leg.
One Health Group utilises specialist consultants and healthcare managers working together to provide the best possible diagnosis and treatment for our patients.
