20% OF HIP REPLACEMENT PATIENTS MAY HAVE SPINAL DEFORMITY (Orthopedics This Week)
A new study, “Prevalence of Sagittal Spinal Deformity Among Patients Undergoing Total Hip Arthroplasty,” has revealed that those with stiff spines have some fascinating hip-spine kinematics going on. This work was published in the August 10, 2019 edition of The Journal of Arthroplasty.
Jonathan Vigdorchik, M.D., assistant professor of Adult Reconstruction and Joint Replacement at Hospital for Special Surgery and Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York and study co-author explained to OTW why he and his colleagues tackled this subject. “The hip-spine relationship has been shown to be an extremely important factor in determining patients at risk for dislocation after total hip replacement. Although hip replacement is one of the most successful surgeries of all time with the lowest complication rates, certain patients are at a higher risk, and it is important to identify these patients prior to surgery.”
“The patients most at risk for a dislocation after hip replacement are those with spinal deformity and also those with spinal stiffness.”
To tease out which patients may be m...
