Ceramic Hip Resurfacing 2012

Hip resurfacing and sir andy murray.

Ceramic hip resurfacing 2012.

Start date may 18 2020. The details provided are of general nature only and. Unlike traditional hip replacement hip resurfacing doesn t completely replace the ball of the hip with a metal or ceramic ball. De smet places his first recerf hip resurfacing device on march 3 2019 in johannasburg south africa.

I will be one of the first surgeons in the uk to use this next year. By professor derek mcminn md frcs 7th february 2019. The procedure that may save his career. As these metal surfaces rub together there is the potential for wear and release of metal ions.

This information has been written by a prof patrick weinrauch for the purposes of patient education. When the cartilage covering the weight bearing areas of the hip joint is lost in osteoarthritis the resultant rubbing of bone on bone produces pain stiffness and limp. Here s the new recerf ceramic hip resurfacing. The procedure that may save his career.

Recerf is a new type of ceramic on ceramic hip resurfacing device. This is a prospective non randomized consecutive series multicentre observational study to evaluate the clinical outcome of ceramic on ceramic hip resurfacing arthroplasty using the ceramic non porous non cemented h1 hip resurfacing arthroplasty. The traditional standard hip resurfacing device is metal on metal like the bhr birmingham hip resurfacing device the wright c and biomet. Hip resurfacing ceramic on ceramic hip resurfacing recerf thread starter chappy.

It looks and feels amazing and might be j. It includes a safety study followed by an efficacy study. Instead the bone is reshaped and capped with a metal prosthesis. Home patient info hip resurfacing and andy murray.

Has anyone else had. Ceramic hip resurfacing is similar in design to traditional metal hip resurfacing however the implant is manufactured from the ceramic commonly used in many conventional total hip replacements.