Surface Hippy is Patricia Walter's
Personal Project to help people lean about Hip Resurfacing Patricia is the
fulltime author, editor, webmaster and owner of the site
"The Birmingham Hip Resurfacing was released in 1997. In Mr. McMinn's
series of nearly 2700 BHRs to date, the failure rate has
been 1.2% at
nearly 9 years. In the younger age group (under 55 years)
with
osteoarthritis, the failure rate of Mr. McMinn's
resurfacings is 0.2%
(survival 99.8%) at 11 years follow-up. The failure rate
with a
traditional hip replacement in this age group by comparison
is 19% at
10 years and 67% at 16 years according to the Swedish Hip
Arthroplasy
Register."
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hip resurfacing. It does not provide medical advice. It is designed to support,
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