The prosthesis manufacturer Finsbury now supplies a series of THR prostheses with ceramic heads in the sizes 32 to 48mm (and the matching acetabular cups). For patients where hip resurfacing and BMHR no longer are regarded suitable the transfer to THR will be more attractive and known problems like luxation fewer due to the increasing size that begins to approach the joint size of our natural hips. Still, patients should not accept such a prosthesis if not at least several in hip resurfacing specialized surgeons (abroad) have determined that neither hip resurfacing or BMHR are possible, because each THR still means the amputation of the femoral neck and introduction of…

As I predicted and wrote here 10-30-2010 have the Swedish surgeons meanwhile fully adopted last year’s recommendation from the Swedish hip arthroplasty register to refuse all women hip resurfacing. Contact with women since then has proven that surgeons accept this recommendation without questioning why the low results with women in Sweden do not occur with for orthopaedic surgeons that are specialized on hip resurfacing. The answer is that Swedish surgeons never reach the level of experience and proficiency that is required to reach good results. It is perhaps good that women are now forced to consult and be helped by real specialists without having to be nervous about low results,…

A new article from the Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research with the heading “Bilateral hip arthroplasty: is 1-week staging the optimum strategy?” gives some interesting information on the results found using different intervals with bilateral hip operations, see: http://www.josr-online.com/content/pdf/1749-799X-5-84.pdf