Preview books - Understanding Hip and Knee
Surgery
Over 50 per cent of the population have arthritis
in one or more of their joints. By the time you are 75 years old, there
is an 85 per cent chance that you will have developed arthritis somewhere,
particularly in the larger joints such as the hip or knee. Treatment of
arthritis can be either medical, with the provision of drugs and other non-invasive
therapies, or surgical. The purpose of this book is to look at the various
surgical solutions.
Despite the frequency of surgery, there are few places a patient may go
to learn about the relative merits and disadvantages of surgery; we hope
this book will help fill that gap.
Mr Richard Villar, MS, FRCS is a Consultant
Orthopaedic Surgeon in Cambridge and a specialist in hip and knee surgery.
He researches and lectures extensively in these fields and has a particular
interest in musculoskeletal transplantation and arthroscopic (keyhole) surgery
of the hip joint.
