slips and may cause a misshapen femoral head, resulting in arthritis/damaged cartilage later in adulthood Hip replacement ...

Hip replacement surgery, or hip arthroplasty ... to cut through the original femoral head, ream out cartilage from the original hip socket and reshape the socket before inserting the new metal ...

I'm an orthopedic surgeon and we're about to perform a total hip replacement for a patient ... dislocated the hip and removed the femoral head, or ball to the ball and hip socket, So here's ...

"Without adequate circulation, the bone simply begins to crumble and die," says Michael Bronson, MD, chief of joint replacement ... injured vessels was the femoral head, or tip of the thigh ...