Introduction
Hip replacement is highly successful operation, with more than 95% of patients expressing satisfaction with the end result. However frequently it is performed, however routine it may be to friends, colleagues, or one's surgeon, a major operation is a natural worry to a patient. The stress of a consultation, the sometimes unexpected recommendations, can drive questions from a patient's mind. That is the purpose of this website - to allow a patient to browse at leisure and to learn something of the background to total hip replacement surgery.
There is a natural limit to how much information can usefully be given through a medium such as this. Consequently, if you require still further detail, a book has been written covering total hip replacement. This can be obtained through your local bookseller, or perhaps your local library (United Kingdom only) or through this website.
Book details: Hip Replacement: a patient's guide to surgery and recovery by Richard Villar (Granta Editions).
Further details
Publisher: Granta Editions, 25-27 High Street, Chesterton, Cambridge, CB4 1ND, United Kingdom
Book available from: The Richard Villar Suite, The Wellington Hospital, Wellington Place, St. Johns Wood, London, United Kingdom, NW8 9LE. Email: rvillar@uk-consultants.co.uk)
ISBN: 1 85757 059 6
Price: £6.99 (excluding p&p)
Format: Paperback. 150 pages (illustrated)
Hip replacement is one of the most successful operations ever devised. Each year more than 500,000 are performed worldwide with the vast majority of patients obtaining excellent and life-improving results from the procedure.
Richard Villar, a specialist hip and knee surgeon, makes clear what hip replacement involves and to what degree the operation can benefit patients, restoring mobility and relieving pain. Based on his personal experience of more than 1,000 cases he explains:
- history of hip replacement
- anatomy of the joint
- when surgery is necessary
- differing designs of prosthesis
- the operation and stages of recovery
In addition there are sections covering the revision operation, possible complications per- or post-surgery, nursing care and physiotherapy.
Richard Villar, a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, has researched extensively in the field of hip replacement and lectures regularly to audiences around the world