|Articles|August 16, 2011

Video: Is your patient a candidate for hip replacement surgery?

Here, orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Bill Walter, describes a systematic approach to the history and demonstrates a hands-on physical examination that can provide definitive evidence that surgery may be the best option.

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