Hip joint
In a conversation with Dr. med. Matthias Schmied you will learn which treatment options are available for injuries complaints and diseases of the hip joint.
Wear and tear in the hip area (coxarthrosis) is a very common clinical picture. A large proportion of the population is affected by this problem, particularly at an advanced age. However, certain changes in shape (e.g. congenital) can also lead to very premature wear and tear in the area of the hips (hip impingement).
At the beginning of hip osteoarthritis can also try conservative therapy. Certain drugs, adapted activity can relieve the discomfort. Autologous blood therapy (ACP) can also be carried out in the hip area. However, if conservative measures are no longer effective, the hip joint endoprosthesis is a very good solution to the problems. In well over 90% of patients we are able to achieve excellent results.
Using the most modern surgical techniques (minimally invasive) as well as hip prostheses of the latest generation, the treatment leads to freedom from symptoms in most cases. Sporting activities can also be performed again.
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Dr. med. Matthias Schmied (Specialist FMH for Orthopaedic Surgery)
Our hip treatments
ACP own blood therapy (pain therapy)
Hip impingement (femoroacetabular impingement)
Hip Joint Osteoarthritis
Hip prosthetics (artificial hip joint)
Painful hip prosthesis (revision and replacement operations)
A precise diagnosis is crucial for a promising therapy of hip pain. Did the hip pain occur after an accident or fall? Is the pain acute or chronic? Degenerative wear and tear, congenital maldevelopment, intensive sporting or occupational stress, previous injury or even overweight are the possible causes: severe stress pain, hip impingement (femoroacetabular impingement), hip arthrosis, painful hip prosthesis.
In the clinical picture of hip impingement (femoroacetabular impingement, FAI), the hip is blocked during certain movements or positions. Conservative therapies can stabilize the blockage. Hip arthroscopy can be used to reattach a joint lip to the acetabular rim, to remove and adjust a deformed joint head, acetabulum, or femoral neck, or to reshape a femoral neck. In this way, the need for an artificial joint can ideally be postponed and even avoided.
Osteoarthritis of the hip joint (hip arthrosis, coxarthrosis) is a wear disease with cartilage wear in the hip joint, which causes severe pain during movement and also at rest. The pathological wear of the cartilage eventually causes bone to move on bone. If conservative treatment options no longer alleviate the pain, only total hip joint prosthesis implantation is promising and pain-free.
Osteoarthritis in the hip joint cannot be cured in principle. Conservative therapies (gymnastics, muscle building) can slow down hip joint wear and stabilise pain. In order to improve limited mobility, the insertion of an artificial hip joint is promising in the case of advanced joint disease. The hip prosthesis replaces the damaged and worn sliding and surface parts of the natural joint.
Revision surgery on the hip (hip arthroplasty) is necessary as a follow-up intervention if loosening of prosthesis parts, wear of the sliding plastic or infections of the hip prosthesis occur. A distinction is made between aseptic loosening (without an infectious cause) and septic loosening, which is caused by a bacterial infection.
