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Why should it be done? of Hip replacement

Hip replacement is the only effective treatment for a hip joint that can’t function adequately and painlessly. The most common causes of pain and reduced mobility are:

• Osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis
• Septic arthritis
• Fracture of the neck of the thigh-bone (femur), with loss of the blood supply to the rounded head of the bone and resultant crumbling (avascular necrosis)
• Other injury to the joint
• Paget’s disease of bone
• The late (delayed) effects of congenital dislocation of the hips
• Osteoporosis in women can lead to hip-joint fractures.

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