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.
At Nuffield Health Wolverhampton Hospital our skilled orthopaedic surgeons specialise in joint replacement and can provide rapid access to hip replacement surgery.
This operation provides a new surface for the ball and socket that make up your hip joint.
If your old hip replacement has started to wear and you are experiencing discomfort, you can get rapid access to a new hip prothesis via revision surgery at Nuffield Health Wolverhampton Hospital.
If your swollen or painful joints, ligaments or tendons do not respond to conservative treatments your consultant may recommend image guided joint injections.
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.