Pittsburg Doctors Offer Hip...

Pittsburgh Doctor Offers New Alternative To Hip Replacement

 

POSTED: 12:33 pm EDT June 1, 2007

 

...Hip pain can be debilitating and extremely painful.

 

But what if you're too young for hip replacement therapy?

 

Something can be done about it in Pittsburgh...

 

...Just before Deliman was ready to leave for India to have the surgery, it was approved in the United States and he found out that local doctor, Dr. Ari Pressman at Mercy Hospital. was doing it...

 

...Now there's a new alternative that is showing remarkable success and it has patients back on track in no time...

 

...Like a hip replacement surgery, a metal socket is still inserted, but there is a major difference. Instead of cutting away the hip, a piece is capped onto the femur bone and articulated into the hip allowing range of motion.

 

Within six weeks of surgery, Deliman was running on the treadmill...

 

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