People without social support may experience more pain years after surgery, a new study suggests. Researchers surveyed 687 patients, average age 62, with rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis who ...

Pain control during the first 24 hours after total hip arthroplasty was maximized in a randomized trial with a combination of acetaminophen (A), ibuprofen (I), and dexamethasone (D), as opposed to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I was in no pain at all, and I was off painkillers. I was off all that stuff,” she recalled of using a walker to get around her ...

Hip replacement is a major, arduous elective surgery, and rehabilitation afterwards takes time, according to an expert from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. It'll also take coordinated planning ...

Persistent knee or hip pain affecting walking, sleep, or daily movement may signal it’s time to consider joint replacement ...

Hip replacement surgery, or hip arthroplasty, is a common procedure that can improve mobility and decrease pain in a hip joint that’s no longer functioning properly. The American College of ...

Twenty-five years ago, when Richard Berger, MD, began talking about outpatient joint replacement surgery, much of the orthopedic community found the idea absurd. At the time, hip and knee replacement ...