| Minimally invasive hip surgery is a much faster and | | | | benefits over more traditional hip surgery. You will |
| safer way to replace a hip joint. Rather than using | | | | experience less pain and muscle and tissue damage. |
| one large incision to enter the surgical site, the | | | | Your hospital stay will be short, usually 2 to 3 days. |
| surgeon makes two smaller incisions (or portals as | | | | You may even get to go home the same day as |
| they are sometimes called.) Not everyone is suitable | | | | surgery, depending on how quickly you recover from |
| for this type of surgery, however. Patients who | | | | the anesthetic and surgery itself. The total recovery |
| qualify are generally thin, young and healthy and have | | | | time and rehabilitation period is generally shorter. |
| a sincere desire to heal quickly. | | | | Minimally invasive hip surgery is a relatively new |
| When you have minimally invasive surgery, you will | | | | procedure that is still in its initial stages. It continues |
| get the same hip implant that you would get with | | | | to be studied and improved each day. There has yet |
| traditional hip surgery. Your surgeon will use specially | | | | to be studies completed to prove or disapprove its |
| designed instruments to get the artificial joint into | | | | effectiveness and long-term benefits. However, |
| place through the smaller incisions. Your incisions will | | | | many patients are recovering quicker and with much |
| measure between three and six inches, depending on | | | | less pain after their surgery has been completed. |
| your size and how extensive the surgery is. Your | | | | They will attest to the fact that this is the only way |
| incisions will most likely be done on the outside of | | | | they would have their hips replaced. Obviously, they |
| your hip. Your hip socket and femur will be then be | | | | are happy with the results and only time will tell if |
| prepared by the surgeon and the implant will be | | | | their new hips do all that they are intended to do. It |
| inserted. Any tearing or damage to your tendons will | | | | is a surgical procedure that is starting to catch the |
| be repaired as the surgery progresses. | | | | eye of many physicians and they are strongly |
| This non-invasive surgical technique has many | | | | considering its long-term benefits and reliability. |