Talk:Hip resurfacing

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Also the first reference is a mix of two...not helpful. I support removal of the specified sportspeople, but there is other evidence of high levels of activity possible with this hip.

This article seems to contain biased content, or is slanted as an advertisement for the procedure described thereon 68.98.69.91 00:05, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

I am concerned about the content below in quotes. Some of this is Off Label and could give potential patients unrealistic expectations. I am recommending that we remove it. Does anyone have an objection?

"There are many athletes with resurfaced hips that continue to compete at the professional level in a myriad of activities. They include: •	Cory Foulk finished a marathon three months after his surgery, finished 11th in the Ultraman world championship eleven months later[5] •	Jim Roxburgh continues to participate in the martial arts after having both hips resurfaced in 2004[6] •	Ian MacLaren of the Torashin Karate Club is believed to be the first 5th dan Karate-ka in the world to have had both hips resurfaced •	Floyd Landis, 2006 Tour de France Winner[7]"

Warning Statement taken from the Cormet and BHR IFU:

Caution the patient to protect the joint replacement from unreasonable stresses and to follow the treating physician’s instructions. In particular, warn the patient to strictly avoid high impact activities such as running and jumping during the first post-operative year while the bone is healing.


 * I am deeply concerned that this is a very poor article indeed. It needs in-depth revision by people who know something about the subject. Cooke (talk) 20:54, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

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Promotional Content
I am removing the promotional content. --Jill (talk) 03:34, 15 January 2008 (UTC)Jill

Explicit Description
It might be a lot more useful for the legibility and overall development of the article to actually explicitly say what a hip resurfacing is, rather than a smattering of comparisons to a total hip replacement? Nonagonal Spider (talk) 19:26, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Very poor article
Speaking as a bioengineering researcher from the academic side, this article is pretty poor. The technical description is very limited (it only begins with the BHR as if that was the first ever attempt at hip resurfacing, which is utterly false) - it makes no allowance for other material combinations besides metal-on-metal, gives a handful of anecdotal 'famous sportspeople' as evidence of performance, which is flatly ridiculous when large amounts of data from national joint registers and in the literature are freely available, and totally fails to provide clinical references quantifying the longevity and failure rates of these devices (absolutely important, in light of the current litigation fallout).

There is some good content buried in there (the importance of patient selection & surgical skill), but it's not even referenced. anyone reading this article wouldn't really end up more informed as a result.

In short, this badly needs a complete re-write. And given the current interest in the tech following the ASR debacle, the sooner, the better. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.78.178.43 (talk) 11:26, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

The oddly heavy bias toward BHR still exists on this page. Just pulled back a pretty unreasonable claim that the BHR "would be best choice for men under 55", performing better than all other kinds of replacements, a pretty gross mishandling of the statistics available in the Australian joint registry. That entire section needs a rework to adequately convey the history and current state of hip resurfacing. Soogwoog (talk) 10:23, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Disadvantages need work
I removed the paragraph on the Lancet study. The study was on "Failure rates of stemmed metal-on-metal hip replacements", which refers to total hip replacement, not hip resurfacing. The other references in the paragraph also talk about THR, not resurfacing. Resurfacing doesn't use a stemmed component.

If you want to write about disadvantages, make sure you're talking specifically about hip resurfacing. Braneof (talk) 16:17, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Expansion of "Devices" to "History and Devices"
I thought this article needed a lot more context and, frankly, some dilution around the obvious promotion of the BHR existing within it. I've added a lot of information sourced from the article here (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26109156), which I cite in the body, in addition to a few statistics from the AOANJRR to give a feel for the current state of things.

It's not perfect, and relies heavily on the summary linked. Soogwoog (talk) 22:58, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

List of Athletes & Recalls
There have been recommendations on the talk page to remove the list of sportspeople for over a decade. It's a magnet for unsourced assertions, subtle promotional materials, and reads as an advertisement for the procedure rather than actually adding any real understanding. I'm editing to remove that section entirely, and am planning to follow up with improvements on the rest of the article.

I am also going to remove the recall section. Although this recall was indeed a major event for the industry, listing it in this way implies that DePuy is somehow the only company involved in recall activities. Instead, the mention in the "History and Devices" section is sufficient to include this event in the historical context.

--Soogwoog (talk) 08:35, 7 November 2019 (UTC)