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« Is Hip Resurfacing a Good Alternative Medicine Treatment to Hip Replacement?” | Home | Pathophysiology of Rheumatoid Arthritis Part 1 »

Alternative Medicine Treatment to Hip Replacement: Osteotomy

If you’re considering hip replacement surgery or if you suffer from chronic hip disease, there’s an alternative medicine treatment available you should know about…osteotomy.

Osteotomy is a surgical procedure that involves cutting and moving your hip bone.

Although osteotomies aren’t as popular today as hip replacement surgery, it is important to consider an osteotomy as an alternative medicine treatment to hip replacement for a number of reasons.

The main advantage an alternative treatment like osteotomy has over hip replacement is that it uses no artificial parts!

But with an osteotomy, your own bone is used. Your doctor changes the shape of your hip joint, and moves the healthier parts of your hip bone into your newly shaped hip joint. This healthier bone can bear more weight and your joint pain and inflammation disappear. The bones are held together with metal pins while they heal, and then the pins are removed – leaving nothing but your own


This photo shows where the pins have been inserted in a patient who has just had an osteotomy.
 

bone! No plastic or metal parts that will eventually need to be replaced.

With a typical hip replacement, your damaged hip joint is replaced withartificial parts like metal and plastic. But these artificial parts wear out over time, and you end up needing another hip replacement. And….the more hip replacement surgeries you have, the less successful they become.

http://www.ejbjs.org/cgi/content/abstract/82/3/342.

 

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