If your hip has been damaged by arthritis from any cause, common activities such as walking or getting in and out of a chair may be painful and difficult. You may even feel uncomfortable while resting. Medication may control your pain for a short while but long term use of pain killers is not likely to do any good to your stomach. You may therefore want to consider hip replacement surgery. By replacing your diseased hip joint with an artificial joint, hip replacement surgery can relieve your pain and help you get back to enjoying normal, everyday activities.

First performed in 1960, hip replacement surgery is one of the most important surgical advances of this century. Since then, improvements in joint replacement surgical techniques and technology have greatly increased the effectiveness of this surgery. Today, more than 200,000 hip replacements are performed each year in the United States alone.

You may benefit from hip replacement surgery if: