Anterior Approach Hip Replacement

Total hip replacement with anterior approach refers to surgeries done from in front of the hip.

Anterior approach hip replacement.

A total hip replacement is a type of surgery. It replaces your hip joint with an artificial one. Total hip arthroplasty is a common surgery with more than 330 000 procedures performed in the united states every year. Anterior hip replacement ahr is surgery to replace a hip joint damaged by wear injury or disease.

A patient considering anterior hip replacement surgery. The anterior approach hip replacement is a muscle splitting approach meaning that the surgeon gets to the hip between two muscles rather than by removing and then reattaching a muscle. Total hip replacement recovery will start with physical therapy in the hospital and will continue once you go home. The anterior approach is most often used when arthritis is the reason for a hip replacement.

It can even be used to fix a hip that has. But it also be used to replace hips with any type of damage. The top of your femur is shaped like a ball and covered with cartilage. Mini posterior approach mpa or direct anterior approach daa.

Within 6 weeks you ll likely be able to do most of your normal activities. However it was the introduction of new instrumentation allowing it to be performed using smaller incisions that has increasingly made it a viable alternative to the more popular posterior approach. However there is significant controversy over the optimal muscle sparing approach. This is largely due to the fact that this approach has only gained popularity in the last 10 years primarily due to more active patients wanting a less invasive technique allowing for a quicker recover.

The direct anterior approach is performed by a relatively small minority of surgeons performing hip replacement. 5 7 this is because the sciatic nerve runs behind the hip joint so it is not exposed when using the anterior approach. The anterior approach sometimes called the mini anterior approach or muscle sparing hip replacement has been used to some degree since the 1980s. These surgeries may also be called mini modified minimally invasive or muscle sparing surgeries.

Immediately after hip replacement surgery a patient is given a list of precautions certain movements and activities that should be avoided in order to protect the new hip s ball and socket from injury particularly dislocation unlike other types of hip replacements anterior hip replacements require few if any precautions. The advantage is thought to be that rehabilitation can proceed more quickly by not having to allow the reattached muscle to heal. See post surgical hip replacement precautions and tips.