Mr van Bavel will be attending the American academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Conference In San Diego In March 2017. This is the largest Orthopaedic conference in the world. Here he will be be presenting his research looking at 230,000 hip replacements performed in Australia over a 15 year period. The research shows a significantly lower revision rate (failure rate) of hip replacements when a cemented stem is used over a cementless stem.
Preventing injury should be a major part of our fitness, warm up and training routine. There is a great new app designed by Olympic sports doctors with the aim to decrease injuries. It gives sports specific warm up and exercise routines that are accompanied wth videos and explanations. Look for “Get set” at the App store.
If you are unlucky enough to pick up an injury MHK are now offering a Knee injury clinic.
With the AFL Womens league underway we need to remember that female athletes have an unfortunately high incidence of ACL rupture.If you’re unlucky enough to injure your ACL here is some information you might find helpful.
Last year the first robotic hip replacement in Australia was performed.
MHK surgeons are now able to offer this technology with Robotic hip replacement available for patients in Melbourne.
This should allow greater accuracy in the positioning of the hip replacement.
