New equipment makes hip replacement easier for patients and surgeons

Before anterior hip replacement surgery, Naperville, Ill. resident Vicky Joseph was challenged every day to do things about which most people wouldn’t think twice. “I was making decisions like, ‘do I really have the energy to stop at the grocery store today?’” says Joseph, 55 years old.  “The pain was critical toward the end.” But Joseph, who had the procedure in June of 2011, had very little post-operative pain, slept in her second-story bedroom on her first night home and has returned to activities she used to enjoy years ago, including mountain climbing and cutting the grass. “I