Around 6% of NHS hip replacements were performed in patients aged 50 or younger.
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Hip pain can be a real worry, and many associate it with old age. But younger people get it too and only a minority of people with hip pain will need surgery.
As the world’s population ages, cheap, durable and safe artificial limbs will become ever more important.
Liam Gallagher recently revealed that he needs a double hip replacement.
Health insurance costs are rising and the price of prostheses such as hip replacements are partly to blame. But there is a way to rein in costs – and give patients more choice and better devices.
Breaking a bone is never a good thing, but breaking a hip is particularly bad. One in three older adults who break a hip will die within 12 months of the injury.
Here’s how we can change the system of approval for new medical implants.
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Senior Research Fellow, NHMRC Career Development Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Newcastle University
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Senior Lecturer (Physiotherapy), RMIT University
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Physiotherapist and Research Fellow (hip and knee osteoarthritis), La Trobe University
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Professor of Orthopaedics, University of Sheffield
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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