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Posted online: Monday, December 03, 2007 at 11:54:45 AM
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Repeat Hip Replacement Made Easy by New Orthopaedic Tool

Repeat hip replacement patients can breathe easy now. For a new orthopaedic tool designed by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researchers in Australia could help slash the healing time from six weeks to just a few days.



QUT Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation researcher Dr Ben Goss said advancing technology had made implanting hip replacements easy, but replacing them was much harder to do.

"The average hip replacement needs replacing after 10 to 15 years, but the recovery time for the second time around is weeks longer than the original procedure," Dr Goss said.

"That's because the 'bone cement', the compound used to stick the hip implant into the bone, is very hard and is difficult to remove."

Dr Goss said when surgeons gave patients their initial hip replacement, the leg bone was hollowed from one end and the artificial hip joint was inserted and kept in place with bone cement.

"But when the prosthesis is replaced, the bone is sliced several times length-ways to chip out the bone cement, causing a much bigger wound in the bone for the body to heal," he said.

"It's a minimum of six weeks before you can walk on it, whereas the original hip replacement can be walked on within days."

Dr Goss along with Dr Cameron Lutton and Dr Lance Wilson have designed a tool that revolutionises the way bone cement is removed.
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