Misdiagnosed hip disease and lumbar pain leads to unnecessary knee and back surgery. How we can minimise unwanted surgery if proper diagnosis made before. Back surgery for hip pain, Knee surgery for back pain. Researchers are advising doctors that they must recognize hip disease before giving a recommendation for back and knee surgery because doctors may be performing the wrong procedures.
Writing in the journal, they say: “We suggest that rheumatologists be aware of hip disease masquerading as knee pain or low back pain.” Here is another interesting study out of the United Kingdom. Writing in the medical journal International Orthopaedics, researchers sought to explain why “up to 20% (of total knee replacement patients) complain of persisting pain.” So at Lister General Hospital, Stevenage, UK, Doctors looked at Forty-five consecutive patients with painful total knee replacement. Of…
