Welcome!  This site is for fellow patients with hip joint disorders--especially those investigating or recovering from total hip replacement (THR), resurfacing, or periacetabular osteotomy (PAO).
This page was last updated on: March 11, 2007
Recalls on hip components
Report steroid-induced AVN to the FDA
Surgeons doing periacetabular osteotomy for adult hip dysplasia

Hip UniverseSM

Links to message boards
Online patients' library from Sweden
Jump to links for resurfacing, "alternative" bearings for THR, minimally invasive THR
News on the latest research, from Total Joints, a non-commercial site
Patient education from Rothman Institute of Philadelphia
YOU ARE HERE (Introduction)
YOU ARE HERE (Introduction)
...quick, before centrifugal force throws us off our whirling planet!
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