The Advent of Total Hip Replacement
Overview
In 1961 John Charnley (1911-1982) developed successful surgery for replacing diseased or injured hip joints with artificial joints. Many surgeons consider ...
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Sir John Charnley
1911-1982
British Surgeon and Inventor
In the late 1950s and early 1960s John Charnley developed successful techniques and materials for total hip replacement (THR) surgery. This ope...
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Total Hip Replacement (THR) is a surgical procedure that relieves pain from most kinds of hip arthritis, thus helping to improve the quality of life for the majority of the patients that undergo th...
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The Advent of Total Hip Replacement
