Newswatch 16's Kerry Kearns spoke with an orthopedic surgeon about who makes a good candidate for these procedures and how new technology is used in surgeries.

Spouses of patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty see a significant improvement in their own quality of life.

A new multicenter study is opening the door to predicting mortality risk after hip fracture in what is the first documented ...

The patient was a 73-year-old man with progressively disabling right hip pain for 2.5 years. The patient had failed ...

How to do it: Grab a mini-band or tie a loose, flat resistance band into a loop that's about a foot across. Wrap the band ...

Dr. Carrie Jose, in her latest Health and Wellness column, shares six ways to help manage knee arthritis, and stay active ...

Your Guide to Hip Replacement Surgery . What Is a Hip Replacement? The hip is one of the largest joints in the body and is shaped as a ball and socke ...

Some 150,000 artificial joints go into Australians’ bodies every year. But they’re no easy fix. What’s it like to get a new ...

Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is a condition characterized by the abnormal shape of the ball-and-socket hip joint. FAI is associated with hip-joint arthritis, and there are a number of different ...

OA in the hip occurs when the smooth cartilage on the end of the ball (femoral head) and socket (acetabulum) portions of the hip joint begins to thin and wear away. This causes increased friction with ...

One 2019 study concluded that acupuncture might have some advantages in treating osteoarthritis of the knee. However, a 2018 review of studies evaluating acupuncture for hip osteoarthritis ...

Objective To estimate the global burden of hip and knee osteoarthritis (OA) as part of the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study and to explore how the burden of hip and knee OA compares with other ...