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Hip replacement is a surgical procedure to replace the hip joint with a prosthetic implant, usually to relieve arthritis pain or fractures. Learn about the different types of hip replacement, the medical indications, the common risks and complications, and the costs and outcomes of the surgery.
Learn about the causes, symptoms, and treatment of snapping hip syndrome, a condition that causes a snapping sensation or noise in the hip joint. Find out how to distinguish between extra-articular and intra-articular types, and how to prevent or manage the pain and inflammation.
Piriformis syndrome is a condition where the piriformis muscle compresses the sciatic nerve, causing pain and numbness in the buttock and leg. Learn about the anatomy of the piriformis and sciatic nerve, the causes of piriformis syndrome, and the diagnostic methods and treatments.
Learn about the Gruen system of dividing the interface between the bone and the stem of the hip prosthesis. See the zones, their descriptions and references for further reading.
Individuals with exploding head syndrome hear or experience loud imagined noises as they are falling asleep or are waking up, have a strong, often frightened emotional reaction to the sound, and do not report significant pain; around 10% of people also experience visual disturbances like perceiving visual static, lightning, or flashes of light.
Learn about the causes, symptoms, classification and treatment of pelvic girdle pain (PGP), a common discomfort during pregnancy and postpartum. PGP can affect the symphysis pubis, sacroiliac joints and other pelvic joints, causing pain, instability and mobility problems.
A comprehensive list of commercial advertisement parodies shown on Saturday Night Live (SNL), a popular American sketch comedy show. The parodies target various products, industries, and formats, and often feature SNL cast members and guests.
Bone grafting is a surgical procedure that replaces missing bone in order to repair bone fractures that are complex or fail to heal. Learn about the different types of bone grafts (autograft, allograft, xenograft, alloplast), the biological mechanisms (osteoconduction, osteoinduction, osteogenesis) and the methods of bone grafting.