Meet the editor

Rosenberg Nahum, MD, MOrth (Hons), FRCS (England), is an orthopedic surgeon holding an MD degree from Technion-ITT, which he received in 1990. He did a residency in orthopedic surgery at Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, between 1990 and 1997. He received his MOrth, Nuffield Fellow (Orthopedic Surgery), from Oxford University in 1998/99, and his Fellowship in Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Nottingham in 2002. He

has been a senior orthopedic surgeon at Rambam Health Care Campus since 2003 and an assistant clinical professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Technion-ITT, Haifa, since 2007. He is a member of the editorial boards of eight scientific journals. His research interests include the outcome of orthopedic procedures and bone biology.

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 5**

**Chapter 3 31**

**Chapter 4 61**

**Chapter 5 85**

Contemporary Non-Surgical Considerations in the Management of People

*by Fiona Dobson, Kim Allison, Laura Diamond and Michelle Hall*

*by Carlos Roberto Galia, Tiango Aguiar Ribeiro, Cristiano Valter Diesel,* 

*by Mehmet Umit Cetin, Yaşar Mahsut Dincel and Yavuz Selim Kabukcuoglu*

Introductory Chapter: Hip Surgeries

*by Gerard A. Sheridan and James P. Cashman*

with Extra- and Intra-Articular Hip Pathologies

*Marcelo Reuwsaat Guimarães and Fernando Pagnussato*

Arthroplasty as a Choice of Treatment in Hip Surgery

Osteoarthritis of the Hip Joint

*by Nahum Rosenberg*

Contents

Hip Arthroplasty

## Contents


Preface

Hip surgery is one of the most challenging branches in orthopedic surgery because of the ultimate role of the hip joint in weight bearing during movement. Its role is especially crucial because of the limited ability of external orthotic devices to bear weight when the hip is disarranged, unstable, and painful. Therefore, orthopedic surgery advancement started with hip surgery, and from the experience gained with

this joint, surgical methods for the treatment other large joints have evolved.

surgery according to the treated pathology.

In this book the authors attempt to present the current knowledge on hip surgery methods in relation to joint anatomy, biomechanics, and the design of the surgical solution. Accordingly, data on the anticipated outcomes from different hip surgeries is described. The book focuses special attention on surgical decision making in hip

> **Dr. Nahum Rosenberg** Department of Traumatology, Orthopedics and Disaster Surgery,

Orthopedics Department, Rambam Health Care Campus,

Moscow, Russia

Haifa, Israel

I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University,
