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To be fair, your pelvic tilt might not be under your immediate control. Certain lifestyle factors can cause the muscles that control your pelvis to tighten, tugging your pelvic bones in a number of ...
While anterior pelvic tilt itself is not an issue, excessive anterior pelvic tilt, which causes lower back, hip, or knee pain, is. These last few years with the rising interest in strength training to ...
Higgins BT, Barlow DR, Heagerty NE, Lin TJ. Anterior vs. posterior approach for total hip arthroplasty, a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Arthroplasty. 2015;30:419-434.
In over 35 years of practice, Sculco has performed over 10,000 hip replacements and like most surgeons today, relies on the posterior approach for hip replacements for most of his patients.
Dr. Y has become an authority on the anterior approach. He performed the first anterior approach hip replacement surgery in Louisville, and to date has performed over 9,500.
Anterior pelvic tilt is when the pelvis, which includes the hip and pubic bones, tilts forward. It causes poor posture and is usually due to a combination of weak and tight muscles. Here, learn ...
Published results showed the direct anterior approach for total hip arthroplasty was associated with significantly increased physiological stress and strain for surgeons compared with the ...
The surgical approach to total hip replacement (THR)—either from the front of the body or the side/back (anterior versus posterior)—has no impact on outcomes six months after surgery ...
The anterior approach has been around as long as there have been total hip replacements, but the posterior approach has been dominant for the past 30 years, largely because it is easier and more ...