The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center offers alternate procedure to avoid hip replacement: 3 key points

Orthopedic

Columbus-based The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is providing patients an option to repair damaged hips instead of going through replacement surgery.

Here are three key points:

 

1. The procedure, known as Subchondroplasty, injects bone substitute material into the joint, filling voids and lesions.

 

2. Over time, a patient’s body replaces the bone substitute with his or her own bone. Physicians note the procedure is less invasive than a hip replacement and patients’ recovery time is shorter.

 

3. Wexter Medical Center’s Kelton Vasileff, MD, is one of the orthopedic surgeons performing the alternate procedure. He said in a statement, “We’re able to sue a bone-hardening procedure that’s traditionally been used in knee surgery to help repair a patient’s own hip joint.”

 

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