What is Hip Revision Surgery?
Hip revision surgery involves the repair of an artificial hip joint that has been damaged or loosened over time or as the result of infection. The use of artificial hip implants has become quite widespread in recent years. They can be extremely effective in improving hip joints that have been severely damaged by injury or some form of arthritis. In hip replacement surgery the diseased portions of the hip bones are cut away and replaced with a two-part prosthesis, or artificial hip joint. With revision surgery the first prosthesis is removed and replaced with a new one. Sometimes this is a long process involving more than one surgical procedure, and is certainly more taxing than the original replacement surgery. The human hip, like the shoulder, is a ball and socket joint, in which the ball of one bone (the femur, or bone of the upper leg) fits into the socket of another (the pelvic bone). As a free-moving joint in the body, the normal hip can move backwards and forwards, from side-to-s
