Multicentre audit and various analyses reveal key challenges and advancements in hip and knee surgeries, highlighting recovery implications.
The August 2026 Hip & Pelvis Roundup 360 looks at: WaSTE: a multicentre audit of waste segregation practices in elective knee and hip arthroplasty; An analysis of the effect of the COVID-19-induced joint replacement deficit in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland suggests recovery will be protracted; Forewarned is forearmed: understanding the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve to minimize sensory complications in direct anterior total hip arthroplasty; A long road: recognizing and treating iliopsoas impingement after total hip arthroplasty; Nutrition as a modifiable risk factor in total joint replacement: improving our outcomes beyond the operating theatre; Rural patients still travel for their hip arthroplasties.
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