If you are a smoker and you are scheduled to undergo a total hip replacement, your orthopaedic surgeon may recommend quitting prior to surgery. All of us are familiar with the health risks associated with smoking – which include cancer of the lungs, mouth, throat and other organs, as well as coronary heart disease, heart…
To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, we are looking at the impact of mental health problems on surgical outcomes, specifically in relation to total knee replacements. Joint replacement surgery is a highly effective and successful procedure that offers people the chance to regain their mobility and their quality of life. It is performed routinely for…
Here we provide evidence-based information about how good nutrition can make a difference to the outcome of joint replacement surgery.
Chronic pain and problems sleeping often go hand in hand. In fact, experts believe between 50-80% of people with long-term pain have ongoing sleep problems. It can become a vicious cycle, with lack of sleep leading to worsening pain which in turn can make it increasingly difficult to sleep. A lack of restorative sleep hampers…
As orthopaedic consultants, we routinely carry out total hip replacement surgery (also referred to as total hip arthroplasty) to treat severe osteoarthritis or serious hip fractures. For keen sportsmen and women, one of the first question we get asked is ‘how quickly can I get back to playing sport?’ Of course, there isn’t a single…
Anyone who is suffering from severe hip or knee osteoarthritis knows how debilitating the condition can be. It causes pain, loss of function and, in some cases, significantly reduced quality of life which can lead to depression.
