Birmingham Hip Resurfacing
May,15,2007 08:40 Filed in: Hip
Resurfacing | Hip
We are now
approved to do the Birmingham hip resurfacing at the
Rubin Institute. I've done a lot of very similar
surgery in the past, so this new prosthesis isn't
much of a change. I had to go through training with
the designer, Mr. Derek McMinn, from Birmingham,
England, before we could get the prosthesis at our
hospital. The big difference is that the Birmingham
hip is FDA approved. The other hip resurfacings in
the US are still being investigated and haven't been
approved, mostly due to the lack of good long term
data. We are very excited to have the ability to
offer this option to our younger patients. If you
want some more in depth information on hip
resurfacing, take a look at
SurfaceHippy, an
independent site which had collected a lot of
excellent information on hip resurfacing.
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