Hip surgery

Minimally invasive hip prosthetic surgery means a procedure that has the objectives of minimizing tissue damage, respecting the anatomy, reducing blood loss, reducing postoperative pain, accelerating functional recovery, improving cosmetics, reducing time of hospitalization and the use of physiotherapy. Surgery must be personalized for each individual patient.

With this technique, a surgical access of approximately 6 centimeters is sufficient to correctly position the prosthesis.

Correct preoperative planning is equal to extreme accuracy of the surgical gesture. For this reason I carry out planning on digital films with a dedicated program to choose the correct implant and to improve the positioning of the components and to restore the correct length of the limbs.

For this surgery, correct positioning of the patient in the operating room is required, which I evaluate with preoperative radiographs with the patient in lateral decubitus position.

Rapid postoperative recovery is possible thanks to preoperative preparation, the quality of the operation and postoperative pain control and rehabilitation. These are the concepts of the fast postoperative recovery protocols that I have been using for years. In particular, the patient walks within 6 hours of the operation and I do not resort to drainage or suturing the wound with metal clips. No particular postoperative physiotherapy is needed and, when conditions allow, discharge takes place on the third postoperative day.

In the facility where I work it is possible to carry out difficult first implant operations and revision of previously implanted prostheses while having short intensive observation beds available.

The expected final result is a restoration of the anatomy, a minimally invasive operation with little pain and an immediate ability to walk which translates into profound patient satisfaction.

In the last 15 years the study of the hip joint has led to the possibility of treating numerous pathologies in arthroscopic surgery, i.e. through the use of small accesses for instruments and a camera and to maximize the conservative treatment of the hip joint with targeted infiltrative therapies mostly performed under local ultrasound guidance.