Arthroplasty is a surgical procedure to repair or replace a damaged or diseased joint.
Surgeons can perform a bone graft to repair or rebuild damaged bone in many areas of your body.
Shockwave therapy is a non-surgical treatment, and works by delivering impulses of energy, targeted to specific damaged tissues within the abnormal tendon.
A hemiarthroplasty is a procedure to replace only the femur portion of your hip joint.
Hip replacement surgery is regularly performed at Nuffield Health Brighton Hospital, with our experienced orthopaedic consultants achieving consistently successful outcomes for our patients.
If your old hip replacement has started to wear and you are experiencing discomfort, you may need it replaced with a brand new prosthesis via hip revision surgery at Nuffield Health Brighton Hospital.
If your swollen or painful joints, ligaments or tendons do not respond to conservative treatments your consultant may recommend image guided joint injections.
Joint surfaces damaged by wear and tear or arthritis may be able to be resurfaced.
Under general anaesthetic your surgeon will move your stiff joint to a full range of motion, stretching the surrounding muscles and freeing the joint capsule.