One of London's leading Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeons warns of the dangers posed to patients by what he believes to be ill thought out innovations in hip surgery. The article, which appears on totalhealth clearly sets out what works in hip surgery - and what doesn't.
Mr Robert Marston, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at St Mary's Hospital and The Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth writes, "Forty years ago hip replacement became a reproducibly successful treatment for arthritisInflammation of one or more joints of the body.. There are continuing innovations in order to obtain the holy grail of hip replacement, the everlasting prosthesisAn artificial device attached to the body.. Unfortunately some of these innovations are ill thought out and poorly researched before being introduced into clinical practice. An unsuspecting public are often beguiled by ill informed articles in daily papers."